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pd441
pd441

Reputation: 2763

How to include Images in a word doc by using a field that references a second word doc that in turn has fields which reference the images?

I'll give an example with two images. In reality I have to do this several times with thousands of images each time.

So I have two images on my desktop and I open a word file and I insert those two images using fields like so:

 { INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\Users\\me\\Desktop\\image_a" }

and

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\Users\\me\\Desktop\\image_a" }

I then save this word document as two_images_test.docx. In a new document I want to create a field with the path to two_images_test.docx in order to be able to display the two images in this new document. I figured this would do it:

  { INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\Users\\me\\Desktop\\two_images_test.docx" }

but alas, it doesn't work and I get an error message saything that the linked image cannot be displayed bla bla bla... Can anyone help me with this? Many thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1153

Answers (1)

macropod
macropod

Reputation: 13505

To link two or more Word documents together, you should use INCLUDETEXT fields, not INCLUDEPICTURE fields. If you want to link a specific range, bookmark that ranges in the source document and specify the bookmark in the INCLUDETEXT field.

For more on the INCLUDETEXT field, see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/field-codes-includetext-field-1c34d6d6-0de3-4b5c-916a-2ff950fb629e

To use INCLUDETEXT fields and INCLUDEPICTURE fields with relative paths, see: http://www.msofficeforums.com/word/38722-word-fields-relative-paths-external-files.html

Upvotes: 2

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