How do I create a form field for an image instead of text?

[Roger Conner]

I am creating a document that allows people to fill in information in several
fields. At the end, I want them to be able to paste an image into the
document. Form fields do not work until you "lock" the document. However,
once you lock the document, people can't modify it by pasting an image into a
picture, for example (tried that). I can't seem to find a field that will
accept an image instead of text or number. Am I missing something, or is
this a limitation of the software?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

I don't have an answer for you but suggest a Google groups search of groups
"microsoft.public.word.*" for the terms picture and form. I know this has
been addressed in the past and I found four pages or postings when I ran
this search.

The following is the link to the search I ran. It all goes on one line in
your browser.
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_...1&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=2005&safe=off
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[Charles Kenyon]

Quoting from a 2004 posting of Graham Mayor:

The method suggested at http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm can be used to
insert images instead of text.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Another thought would be to have a textformfield with an on-entry macro
that:

1. unprotects your document
2. runs
Application.Dialogs(wdDialogInsertPicture).Show
3. reprotects the document without resetting form fields.

This would let the user browse for the picture. The picture will replace
your field unless you do something to unselect the field. This is probably
what you want.

You could use a macrobutton field instead and probably write code so that
the inserted picture becomes the display for the macrobutton field such that
double clicking on it again would run the macro. This is not something I
care to spend time trying for you, though.
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[Jay Freedman]

For an example of a template that does something similar to this, download
the form_picture.zip file from http://jay-freedman.info.

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