Automating Visual Captioning?!

Question

Ive got 5000 photos that need to be individually captioned and embedded on the actual photo (think National Geographic photo subtitles).  What is the easiest/automated way to do this?
Ideally the caption / description is not embedded on the actual photo - I would need to create a white block at the bottom of the photo and use black text.  This is not mandatory - if need be, the white bar could be on top of the actual photo.
How do I automate a process given that Im going through 5000 photos and dont want to have to do a lot of clicking around to do it?
PLEASE HELP!
Robert

Answer 1

Hi Cjsykes,
Based on the code in orignal post, you were making changes in the workbook and saved the changes.
Since the workook was saved on a net work and could be opened by others at the sametime, I suspect the workbook may be opened by others before you opened it. Would you mind shareing the exect error message you got?
Also you can copy this workbook and test the code with the workbook copied to see whether the issue is relative to the workbook opened by others.
>>. you would never actually see the excel documents open up, it just happened in the background without any issue. Once I upgraded to Microsoft Excel 2013 I could actually see the excel documents open up on the screen and it slowed the operation down
and is very annoying<<
I am trying to reproduce the issue however failed, here are the test code:
Dim ExcelApp As New Application
'ExcelApp.Visible = True
Dim aWorkBook As Workbook
aWorkBook = ExcelApp.Workbooks.Open("C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Book1.xlsx")
aWorkBook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A3") = "test"
aWorkBook.Save()
ExcelApp.Quit()
To see whether the issue relative to the format to Office, I suggest that you test the code with a new workbook created by Office 2013.
Also I would suggest that you test the code above to see whether the issue was relative to the code. If yes, would you mind sharing with us a code demo to help us narrow down this issue? You can upload it via OneDrive.
Regards & Fei
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