Thanks a million for the macro. It works like a charm.
You just added hours...no, actually days onto my life.

And apologies about the content placeholder confusion. I definitely can rotate the content placeholder in the slide master. The only problem is that when you insert a picture into a regular content placeholder that's been rotated, it always puts the picture up and down. It doesn't rotate it with the placeholder for some odd reason.

That's not the case with the picture placeholder. The pic keeps the orientation of the placeholder. And now with your nifty macro, all my pictures can be rotated and cropped to fit.

Truly grateful