keewellman

Thank-you everyone so much for answering so quickly! I am going to survive this once again. I forget what I did each time by the next time I use the program. I still do wish there were more keyes available to move slides around. I spent all day on this but at least got half of it done with your help.

I think you are right! I am in the Fullscreen File List. How do I get to the Fullscreen Slide list so I can drag and drop the slides to organize? I haven't found it in the User Manual. I have always used F3 and F4 before. Copy, paste, delete, move to top, move to bottom - none of these work.

All the files have been added to the file list. Maybe something has gone wrong with the program as none of the shortcuts or drag and drop are working. I can select the file by clicking on it in the Fullscreen Slide List view but can't move any of them around. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the 7.5 version but that hasn't helped. I'm afraid to delete my downloads in case I can't get anything to work once installed. What should I try next?

Suddenly I am unable to Drag and Drop files on the Fullscreen Slide List. I see another thread saying to go to "Settings" to "Tools" and show all tools. Where is the Settings button found? I have 220 slides to organize for tomorrow and am, once again, desperate!

How do I access Settings - Tools, to be able to drag and drop?

Thanks, I found it on the top row! Now for the other wishes! Eleanor

Please add back the Cut and Paste hotkeys as well as the Send to Top and Send to Bottom keys. Also missing from the version I am using is the slider to make the slide list thumbnails larger or smaller. When trying to put together a slide show with at least 100 slides the drag and drop with no ability to make the slides smaller is just way too time consuming and cumbersome. Every time I try to put together a slide show now I just get frustrated and angry!

OK, thanks, I found that. What about the "to Top" and "to end"? What replaces those and why were they taken out?

I do simple but large slideshow presentations. The Views button is missing from the Main Menu bar. I always need to see all my slides at once so always sort using the Fullscreen Slide View. Doing that on the timeline is just not efficient for 200 slides! Good thing I remember the key for that as it is no longer available In the new Settings button. Why was this removed? Also, I used the right click on the slide and send to top or bottom. That no longer works! Why not? Am I the only one who ever used these features? What do other people do? If these features are no longer available on the latest versions this program is no longer of any use to me. Sorting large numbers of slides is hard enough without some of the things I used being taken out of the program.

As I have already sorted close to 300 of the images in P2E for my slideshow I would prefer not to have to resort them for another folder. Looks like the best way would be to just rename each slide individually according to its number in the show. The reason I want to be able to do this is that I want to be able to use the same images with a different focus for another show. The obvious thing to do, now that I get into this, is to just rename the old show that is already done and move some of the images around. That way I don't have to start all over again. Sorry I didn't think of that sooner!

Sounds good, doesn't it, except if you don't have a folder where they are already in order how do you batch rename them!!! Doesn't work!

I'll try George's suggestion and look into the program David P suggested. I use Breezebrowser Pro to sort my RAW images and that does a rename also. Thanks!

Is is possible to create a folder containing all the sorted files in order without creating a slideshow? I realize I could rename every single slide adding the number but is there an easier way?

Thanks, Peter! I guess my eyesight just isn't as good as yours! I do agree that the drag and drop works!

As I'm not able to get the normal Windows keyboard shortcuts to work I guess I have no choice but to resize the images each time I need to move one and then do a drag and drop and do another resize all the images. As I said, using the shortcuts mentioned gives me a copy and it isn't where I want it to go. I could just do a copy and paste and then delete the one from the old location. Is there some keyboard setting that might be preventing me from doing a cut and paste?

Yes, and in some circumstances that works. If I have a large number of files and I need to have them large enough to tell what each one is, I would have to keep taking it to top or bottom of the slides showing on the screen, move it up further, and then further again. Cut and paste would be much easier! It shows in the list of keyboard shortcuts that Control X and Control V should do just that. Don't see how to get it to work though.

Further, when I right click on the slide, there is no option for Cut, just Copy and paste.

I am sure there is a very simple way to do this but what I have tried doesn't work! I click on an image in the Slide list, hit Control X, move up to the place I want to Paste the image, click on it and hit Control V. Doesn't work. I get a blank black slide instead. What should I be doing?

I had several old Activation Keys in saved emails but none of them worked for the edition I had downloaded. I am on a new 64 bit computer. Eventually I set up my old computer and spent another 3 hours resorting all the slides. At least it worked!!! When I got home last night the email with the key had been received. Using the instructions it was activated easily. It was tense, upsetting and I had to miss the first speaker at the workshop but my slideshow worked perfectly! It would have helped to know in advance that the activation key wouldn't be coming as soon as I paid for the downloaded software!

YOU SHOULD TELL PEOPLE THAT THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO USE THE NEW VERSION FOR 48 HOURS AFTER DOWNLOADING! AFTER SPENDING ALL DAY YESTERDAY PREPARING SLIDES I AM UNABLE TO GIVE MY PRESENTATION THIS MORNING TO MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE. I HAVE BEEN A CUSTOMER SINCE 2004 AND AM NOT HAPPY. I WAITED ON HOLD FOR ONE HOUR TO TALK TO SUPERVISOR AT DIGITAL RIVER.

After being a Pictures to EXE customer since 2004 I have had to download a new version of it to use on my NEW 64 bit computer. Unfortunately, there is no notice when ordering that you may not receive an Activation Key for 48 hours. I was on hold for 1 hour before being told there was nothing Digital River could do. I spent all day yesterday preparing images for a presentation this morning at 7 am. No activation key so no presentation! THERE IS NO REASON WHY WNSOFT CAN'T GET AN ACTIVATION KEY TO A CUSTOMER IMMEDIATELY!

I have been using Pictures to EXE for several years and have been quite happy with it. Typically I make a slide show in which I control the length of time for each image as the show proceeds. I would like to be able to add some video in the middle of this show. Is it possible? If so, how? I add no music and narrate and answer questions as I go along. Eleanor

Lin, Is that the same as Creating the EXE? I would like to be able to go back and add and edit the Slide list after having created one project and then create a new Project without starting all over again. Is that the same thing? Eleanor

I want to be able to save the slide list from a project, in order, so that I can update the list when I need to add new slides without having to start all over again. Is that possible?

I have found the PTE file. It opens in Pictures to EXE and the images show up in the File List but they show as empty boxes in the Slide List. It says the jpgs are not available. What is happening?