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Word doc with gifs
Hi All;
I don't know if this an appropriate newsgroup to post to but... I have a word doc that I insert and resize gif files regularily. I rarely update the text. My question is this, can word save a doc that has "external links" to gifs on my hard drive so that when I update the gif file the word doc would update automatically - sort of like a web page? I would prefer that the picture resizes to the dimensions that I set, but am more concerned with the doc "re-freshing" the images. thanks in advance |
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Word doc with gifs
First, use the Insert Picture From File dialog instead of copy/paste to
put the pictures into the document. When you select a picture in the dialog, click the down arrow on the right of the Insert button, and choose either "Link to File" or "Insert and Link". Both of these choices create a link (an IncludePicture field) that points to the file on the drive, and changing the content of the file will also change the picture in the Word document (you may have to select the picture in the document and press F9 to update the field). The difference between the two is that "Insert and Link" also includes the picture itself in the document, so if the graphic file isn't available the document will continue to show the picture. The "Link to File" choice omits the picture data (by placing a \d switch in the field code); this makes the document file smaller, but if the external graphics file isn't available all you'll see in the document is the "red X" error icon. To force the picture to a specific size, insert it in a table cell in which you've clicked Table AutoFit Fixed Column Width. You can turn off the table borders in Format Borders & Shading. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. tHeDiP wrote: Hi All; I don't know if this an appropriate newsgroup to post to but... I have a word doc that I insert and resize gif files regularily. I rarely update the text. My question is this, can word save a doc that has "external links" to gifs on my hard drive so that when I update the gif file the word doc would update automatically - sort of like a web page? I would prefer that the picture resizes to the dimensions that I set, but am more concerned with the doc "re-freshing" the images. thanks in advance |
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