Microsoft support confirmed that this is a bug around mid-December '09. After
some confirmatory testing, they seemed rather shocked to discover that not
all support issues are user errors!
As usual it's easy to think of a number of reasons, but which ones
actually drove the whole thing is anyone's guess.
Nasty 'ol neglect, apparently. They did some research and determined that
their developers' test suite doesn't even include IncludePicture tests! This
makes sense since IncludePicture has been quietly deprecated in 2007 --
searching for IncludePicture in Word Help comes up rather empty these days.
Microsoft obviously want their badly-flawed IncludePicture feature to just
fade away.
At any rate, they've promised a fix in SP3 which they say is due sometime
around March, so I'd wait until then before investing a lot into finding a
workaround.
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
Yes, the regeneration of INCLUDEPICTURE fields is interesting. At first
I thought it only happened when the INCLUDEPICTURE field itself (rather
than the link info.) was retained. (I think I must have broken some
links inadvertently when I was looking at this, and that pictures that I
thought should be linked no longer were. Oh well.)
The part I really don't understand is why the dev team felt they had
to mess with this. "Who knows what evil lurks..."
As usual it's easy to think of a number of reasons, but which ones
actually drove the whole thing is anyone's guess.
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
On 02/02/2010 01:28, Jay Freedman wrote:
Yes, that's correct -- the information is in the object's LinkFormat
property, but there is no INCLUDEPICTURE field. Any code from previous
Word versions that depends on reading or modifying the INCLUDEPICTURE
field code (for example, replacing the path in the file name) will
fail.
The interesting part is that if you use File SaveAs to save the
document in Word 2003 format, it "magically" reconstitutes the
INCLUDEPICTURE field.
The part I really don't understand is why the dev team felt they had
to mess with this. "Who knows what evil lurks..."
--
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On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:01:55 +0000, Peter Jamieson
wrote:
Thanks Jay. You are right.
Funny, I was definitely encountering picture objects with no such info.
Probably experimental error on my part, but I'll try to go through the
tests again at some point when I'm not so bog-eyed.
However, I am still reasonably sure that the actual INCLUDEPICTURE
fields themselves are being removed and replaced by the other link
information I described, and I am reasonably sure that Word never
regenerates INCLUDEPICTURE fields from that newer-style link information.
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
On 01/02/2010 19:56, Jay Freedman wrote:
Peter,
The information is available through VBA. I posted a macro at
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...69e37ddeec4c2f
to display the link for a selected Shape or InlineShape.
.