I am trying to mimic the sometimes hard to duplicate behavior of an object used in an MS Word 2013 example - the insert image control, which allows users to click on an icon to bring up a file selection window so they can insert an image from their hard drive into a document.

In the control that comes with the example document (in this case, my example document from Office Online is "invoice timeless"), there is a nifty bar on the top, with text that says "click icon at right to replace logo", and a small icon to the right of the text that when clicked, opens the file browser. I like this functionality, as it is clean and clear for the user.

However, when one simply pastes an image control from the Design toolbar into their document, they get a control with an MS Paint-looking icon right smack in the middle that one clicks on to open the file browser - not the smaller icon that comes active in the example from Office Online.



I can't figure out how MS is implementing this different functionality in their example. Can anyone shed light on the mystery?

Thanks
-John

The template uses a picture content control for the logo. The 'Click icon at right to replace logo' text has been created by making that the content control's title. The picture is just one that whoever created the template inserted using the default 'MS Paint-looking icon' you referred to.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]