Hello JohnWilson again, thank your for your continued help, I really appreciate it. I ran the code you offered and am getting a type mismatch error on the line containing .addPicture. Even with this error the picture is inserted into slide 1 but then it stops. I can't figure out what is causing the mismatch, objPPTAAppa is the PowerPoint Application object, objPPPres is the specific PowerPoint file, looks like objPPSid is the ID of slide 1, that all makes sense to me, not sure what is causing the mismatch.