If you arrange and print the pictures from a photo organizer (Adobe, ACDSee, MediaDex, etc) as a pdf, for instance, you can choose to have the file-name inserted below each picture.

Is there some particular reason why your friend would want to use MS Word for this project?

My friend is wanting to insert photos into MS Office Word documents that are named using family names while she is researching and doing some genealogy work. It is just simple insert photo using the menu bars on Word documents but she wants to have the file names as captions in the document.

She has scanned the pictures into a file folder and named them right away and she wants to have the filename of each picture as a caption for the pictures when she inserts them into a document.

Do you know of a way to do this or a program that will do this easily or is this a per picture additional that needs to be done for each caption and photo insertion.

Thank you very much.

Certainly this was not designed for genealogists but I think we’d all find it handy.

If the higher end Adobe products are in your budget, they have much more extensive options for XMP use. There’s also an interesting article and flash presentation about it here.

Unless you’re only using jpg’s, using IPTC through Adobe will give the best results. Not surprising as Adobe is a major support behind this ‘standard’. Other major photo editing software may do likewise but it’s not in my repertoire.

Jpg’s and uncompressed tiff’s with IPTC-embedded information will import, descriptions intact, into Legacy and Passage Express.

The information on psd’s, tiff’s and jpg’s are all viewable in XnView, depending where the IPTC info comes from. Only the jpg’s are editable there. Using both IPTC and Windows File Properties is counter-productive, as Adobe wants to be king-of-the-hill in this game and will delete any information put into WFP previously. For anyone not familiar with using tiff’s, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer provides a toolbar for adding captions, etc.

This only works with tiff’s that do not have IPTC-embedded information, otherwise you have the usual option of opening the graphic in the Window’s XP ‘Paint’ program.

Paint is simple enough not to get lost in. Theoretically. Under ‘attributes’ you can extend the height and make room for a caption. It doesn’t have fancy options like auto-centering of text, but it’ll do for a quick annotation.

I’ve seen that before – the ability to put multiple pages into a single image file. It’s fun, a home-made version of microfilm.

Have you looked at Xnview free program? Also lets you scan multiple pages into a single tiff file.