Hi SlowJoe,

You mention using legacy controls as well as the picture content control. Please note that legacy controls and content controls are not designed to work together and can lead to strange behaviour in documents containing both. Accordingly, you should stick with one or the other.

As for the issue with the blue background, that could be addressed by inserting a 'blank' image, perhaps as the default.

Alternatively, you could use a rich text content control, coupled with a macro. This has the advantage of allowing you to set a different default folder than the standard one. For details, see: https://www.msofficeforums.com/drawi...html#post53751. You could also change the default prompt.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you for the reply. I tried replacing with a rich edit control. That works pretty well if the user knows what to do. I also tried inserting a blank signature at design time as you suggested. I cant figure out how to change the picture at "run time" (when the user has double-clicked the dotx template and is creating a document. Any thoughts?

Thank you again,
Joe