The Program will not accept photo files that are larger than 1000x600.
This requires going to Photo Shop reducing the size of each photo.
then inserting it.I see no way to change resolution of more than one
image at a time in Photo Shop.
Is that the way it is supposed to do ? And must I shoot digital
pictures in low resolution mode ( in order to use in  Power Point
slide show),will the print quality of these images be lessened when I
do print them?

Dear radiokap,

Sorry about your Powerpoint limitation, but 1000 x 600 probably looks
quite impressive.

I would recommend that you continue shooting high resolution photos.
These can then be archived as your masters or "negatives". You may
then use Photoshop (or other programs as suggested) to create
manipulated images for various purposes eg larger, higher resolution
sharpened images for printing (300 dpi), smaller, lower resolution for
email (72 dpi) or web display and your desired Powerpoint resoultion.

I am afraid I only have Photoshop elements to test... but I am quite
confident that Photoshop would have a similarly named menu options.
Althought there are a number of possibilities with Photoshop I hope
you find the following step-by-step instructions useful.

1. Sort all your "original" images so that those of the same desired
or final size and aspect ratio are to be found in one folder known in
Photoshop as the "Input folder"
2. Create matching folders for Photoshop to place the resized images:
"Output folder"
3. Choose File menu Automate
4. Choose Batch...
5. In the "Files to Convert" popup menu select Folder
6. Press the Source button to select the folder you created in Step 1.
7. Specify the Conversion Options as JPEG by using the "convert file
type" popup menu.
8. Tick "Image Size" and fill in the desired height, width and
resolution.
9. Under "Output Options" press the Destination button to specify the
folder created in Step 2.
10. Select OK
11. Photoshop will then open each image in your Input Folder (step 1)
and place a resized version in the Output Folder (step 2).

Note: When using Photoshop for converting high resolution originals
for the web, I have found the two step process of (a)resizing as above
then (b)using the menu option File "Save for Web" to be very useful as
this allows you to see the effect of greater or lesser jpeg
compression.

I hope this helps. Naturally, I would be glad to add further
clarification as required.

Rather than using Photoshop for this task, you may want to consider an
image editor called Graphic Workshop Professional, a shareware program
that can easily resize all your graphics (as well as perform many
other image-editing functions.) Among other features, this powerful
program has built-in batch processing, allowing you to resize multiple
images with a single click.

Graphic Worship Professional can be downloaded here:

http://www.tucows.com/mmedia/preview/194866.html

Further info about the program and its many features can be obtained
here:

http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwspro.html

I have no problems importing large images into PowerPoint 2002 (XP).
Unfortunately I don't have PowerPoint 2000 here, to test it out on.

Instead of manually resizing images, you can try a freeware batch
rescaler, such as Mihov's Image Resizer:
http://www.mi2.si/miha/eng/ir.html

Kind regards.

rhansenne-ga.

There is no problem with using Photoshop to batch resize multiple
images. Just set up an "action" then either play the action yourself
on each image or go to file/automate/batch and set it up to do a whole
folder of images at once: anything you can do once in photoshop, you
can do a million times with a push of one button. You can also use the
file/automate "web photo gallery" function to resize images since it
allows you to set the size you want the images to be. BTW, I used to
do a lot of Power Point stuff (unfortunately) and believe it or not,
if you are going to project the presentation, images looked better in
back to back tests when placed into powerpoint as 150dpi images rather
than standard 72dpi. Logically it makes no sense but in back to back
comparison of projected images it was so. On the computer monitor we
saw no difference (as you'd expect).