Putting photos in random order

I'm making a slideshow and I have all the photos loaded, my question is, is there a way to rearrange the photos so they are not in order that they were taken? I'm looking for a quick way I started to rearrange each photo individually but that is taking forever.
Thanks
Jennifer

to move a picture to a different spot on the movie you click the picture so that the yellow box is highlighted around the picture. make sure it's not on edit mode (where you can flip or crop the picture) and once the little white hand appears you can click it to grab and move anywhere you'd like.

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Before going into any depth about this have you checked that you aren't simply using the shuffle option in the slideshow settings.

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