John has documents that contain links to pictures on a network drive. The pictures have been moved, and he wants a way to change the links so they point to the new location of the pictures. The only thing that has to change is the drive letter and the path, not the picture name itself.
When you insert pictures as links in your document, they are inserted as INCLUDEPICTURE fields. You can see this if you select the picture and press Shift+F9. You should then, instead of the picture, see a field similar to the following:
{ INCLUDEPICTURE "R:\\CommonPics\\masthead.jpg" \* MERGEFORMAT \d }
With the field code displayed, the contents of that field code can easily be changed using the Find and Replace capabilities of Word. Thus, you can change the drive and path by following these general steps:
Figure 1. The Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
The links in the document are now all updated, and you can save your document.
If you have quite a few documents that you need to change, you may be interested in implementing the above steps in a macro. Creating the macro is easy (just record the above steps), but getting Word to perform the operation on a series of files, without intervention on your part, is a bit more involved. A good place to start to learn how to do this is at the Word MVP site:
http://wordmvp.com/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm
Once you learn the technique of how to work with multiple files, you can then modify your single-file macro (the one you recorded) so it will work on more than one file.
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2016-01-26 16:00:42
Regis Von Wagner
"Press Alt+F9 to display the field results for all fields in the document." as the final step will not work for Word 2000 and probably others. The links in the document are NOT now all updated
Crtl+A Select all
F9 Update the fields
Alt+F9 Display field codes off
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