Hi K.M.,
The hooks within Office 2007 for Insert=>Picture=>from scanner or camera have been removed. It's not available directly in Word and
it's no longer an option even in the 'Photo Album' feature of MS Office Powerpoint 2007 in B2TR.
My guess is that this is another one of those features that Vista is supposed to provide so not included in the apps that run in
Vista, otherwise it would seem that as more folks get scanners and cameras (in phones etc) MS had rather odd timing in removing that
feature from Office, or perhaps there are instability problems with that older interface and the new parts of Office, or perhaps
folks would send their pictures directly to Word and not have another (original) copy. We may never know for sure <g>, but you may
not need it.
You can get the dialog in Word if you create a new toolbar in a pre-2007 version of Word for a document or template and on that
toolbar use Tools=>Customize=>Commands=>All commands and drag the From camera or scanner command to your new toolbar. When you open
that document or template in Word 2007 that command will be in the Add-Ins tab and appears to work.
In the help files for Office 2007 the recommended method is to download from your camera or scanner to your hard drive then use
Insert=>Illustrations=>Picture(from file) to insert the items. (MS Office Document Imaging/scanning does still support this in
2007)
You may also be able to use your camera, graphics or scanner software to 'send' a graphic to an Office 2007 app, even though that
command is not in Word. For example I can, from Irfanview or from a Lexmark/Dell scan software choose 'Send to Microsoft Word' as a
photo, the software does the scan, starts Word and insert pastes the graphic in.
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Hi,
is it still the same on the B2TR? will it be staying that way in the gold release? wonder why they would remove such usability
feature as other applications, e.g. acrobat are capable of directly importing from scanner/camera? >>
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I hope this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?

MS Office system products MVP
LINKS to the 2007 Office System Beta
1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages:
http://microsoft.com/learning/office2007/default.mspx#booksfrommspress
2. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive,
e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies:
http://microsoft.com/office/preview
3. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007
a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit
http://officebeta.iponet.net