I did some more testing and I think I found a point of confusion.

When I wrote that I was pasting images, I mean that I copied an image file from windows explorer and pasted that into Word. When doing this, the code works outside the table but not inside.

I just tested opening an image file and copying the image from inside the image viewer and pasting the copied image selection into a table and the code works both indie the table and outside, as expected.

Does anyone know how I could get this to work when pasting image files into a table?

I have a TON of files to process and coding a solution for this would be wonderful!

Many thanks for all of the help!