Repeating/saving drawing shapes and adjusting photos

[daverose69]

I am a home inspector, and spend significant time writing reports. The software I have is a Word-based product with macros and a template.



My laptop has Windows8, but "shell out" to the desktop and use the older view of Windows since I'm familiar with it. My version of Word is Office 2010 32-bit.

I have two questions:
1) Often I want to point out a specific area of a photo, and to do this I use the shapes tool. Once I select the shape, I size the circle, then right click on the border, change color to red, change line thickness to 2 pts, then change color to "none" so I can see through it. My question is...is there a way to save this shape so I don't have to do these 5-10 clicks every time? I write 2 reports a day...this is becoming a hassle LOL.

2) I import many photos into my reports and have to "doctor" them. This includes compressing, resizing, and sometimes rotating. I currently do one thing at a time (let's say for example resizing to 2.5" wide), then use the PF4 feature to "repeat" that for all photos. Then I put four spaces between two photos on one line, as this is the best fit for my captioning process. Is there a faster way to apply multiple attributes to photos than this? Can I create some sort of macro that would do this to all photos at once? I did find a compress option that will compress them all at once...so that's nice...but the resizing and spacing is still quite time consuming when I have about 50 photos on average in a typical report.

Thank you!

Dave