Annoying Insert Photos PowerPoint 2016

[ajv2u]

While i like the idea of having the ability to search Bing and access my skydrive inside of powerpoint it becomes an annoying extra step when i need to insert 300 photos, that i have on my local computer, into my powerpoint slides. I would like to know if there is any way to get rid of this like an option to tell powerpoint that i want to work offline. Even disconnecting from the internet doesn't fix it.