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Old 02-10-2020, 08:27 PM
henhelm henhelm is offline Windows 10 Office 2016
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Default Macro for Inserting Multiple Photos from Excel List into Word

I was looking for help with a Word macro that could do the following:

(1) Insert multiple photos into a word document without having to navigate through a directory to find the photo folder. (2) Retrieve and insert the captions for those photos from a column of data in an excel sheet. (3) Format the caption font to a certain font style.

I would sincerely appreciate your help.

Macropod has graciously provided this code, but the user must navigate to the file folder containing the photos and the captions are created based on the image names (I apologize if I am not pasting this code correctly):

Code:
Sub AddPics()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim Stl As Style, i As Long, j As Long, c As Long, r As Long, NumCols As Long, iShp As InlineShape
Dim oTbl As Table, TblWdth As Single, StrTxt As String, RwHght As Single, ColWdth As Single
On Error GoTo ErrExit
NumCols = CLng(InputBox("How Many Columns per Row?"))
RwHght = CentimetersToPoints(CSng(InputBox("What max height for the pictures, in centimeters (e.g. 5)?")))
On Error GoTo 0
'Select and insert the Pics
With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
  .Title = "Select image files and click OK"
  .Filters.Add "Images", "*.gif; *.jpg; *.jpeg; *.bmp; *.tif; *.png"
  .FilterIndex = 2
  If .Show = -1 Then
    'Create a paragraph Style with 0 space before/after & centre-aligned
    With ActiveDocument
      On Error Resume Next
      Set Stl = .Styles("TblPic")
     If Stl Is Nothing Then Set Stl = .Styles.Add(Name:="TblPic", Type:=wdStyleTypeParagraph)
      On Error GoTo 0
      With .Styles("TblPic").ParagraphFormat
        .Alignment = wdAlignParagraphCenter
        .KeepWithNext = True
        .SpaceAfter = 0
        .SpaceBefore = 0
      End With
    End With
    'Add a 2-row by NumCols-column table to take the images
    Set oTbl = Selection.Tables.Add(Range:=Selection.Range, NumRows:=2, NumColumns:=NumCols)
    With ActiveDocument.PageSetup
      TblWdth = .PageWidth - .LeftMargin - .RightMargin - .Gutter
      ColWdth = TblWdth / NumCols
    End With
    With oTbl
      .AutoFitBehavior (wdAutoFitFixed)
      .Columns.Width = ColWdth
    End With
    CaptionLabels.Add Name:="Picture"
    For i = 1 To .SelectedItems.Count Step NumCols
      r = ((i - 1) / NumCols + 1) * 2 - 1
      'Format the rows
      Call FormatRows(oTbl, r, RwHght)
      For c = 1 To NumCols
        j = j + 1
        'Insert the Picture
        Set iShp = ActiveDocument.InlineShapes.AddPicture( _
          FileName:=.SelectedItems(j), LinkToFile:=False, _
          SaveWithDocument:=True, Range:=oTbl.Cell(r, c).Range)
        With iShp
          .LockAspectRatio = True
          If (.Width < ColWdth) And (.Height < RwHght) Then
            .Width = ColWdth
            If .Height > RwHght Then .Height = RwHght
          End If
        End With
        'Get the Image name for the Caption
        StrTxt = Split(.SelectedItems(j), "")(UBound(Split(.SelectedItems(j), "")))
        StrTxt = ": " & Split(StrTxt, ".")(0)
        'Insert the Caption on the row below the picture
        With oTbl.Cell(r + 1, c).Range
          .InsertBefore vbCr
          .Characters.First.InsertCaption _
          Label:="Picture", Title:=StrTxt, _
          Position:=wdCaptionPositionBelow, ExcludeLabel:=False
          .Characters.First = vbNullString
          .Characters.Last.Previous = vbNullString
        End With
        'Exit when we're done
        If j = .SelectedItems.Count Then Exit For
      Next
      'Add extra rows as needed
      If j < .SelectedItems.Count Then
        oTbl.Rows.Add
        oTbl.Rows.Add
      End If
    Next
  Else
  End If
End With
ErrExit:
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Sub FormatRows(oTbl As Table, x As Long, Hght As Single)
With oTbl
  With .Rows(x)
    .Height = Hght
    .HeightRule = wdRowHeightExactly
    .Range.Style = "TblPic"
    .Cells.VerticalAlignment = wdCellAlignVerticalCenter
  End With
  With .Rows(x + 1)
    .Height = CentimetersToPoints(0.5)
    .HeightRule = wdRowHeightExactly
    .Range.Style = "Caption"
  End With
End With
End Sub

Last edited by macropod; 02-10-2020 at 09:18 PM. Reason: Added code tags
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