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Replace Embedded Objects with Linked Objects
I had a problem in DOCX where I have a number of documents containing the same image, sometimes many times. What I needed to answer is whether my documents CONTAIN the image, or whether all images were under LINK (as desired).
------------------------------------- NOW. This is EXTREMELY RISKY, as it appears you can destroy your document by playing in this sphere.
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Anything and everything. Like I said, this is EXTREMELY risky. One that I noticed is that if you replace a picture with one of a different size then it is NOT resized in the document. It is shaped to fill the original space in the document. BTW that is also true outside this workaround, where if you replace a picture of your wife with one of your children, and they are of a different size or aspect, then the end-result can be NOT what you expected. |
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One wonders why you'd even bother with such an approach, when it's easy enough to test whether a given image is linked or embedded without it and, if not, replace said image, all without the risk of corrupting the document...
PS: Instead of re-opening old threads (i.e. https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...rd-2007-a.html) for a substantially different issue, please start your own.
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That approach in your link requires you to convert to pre-XML version of Word. I was fairly sure that my Media was OK (I found 7 Imported in 12 documents), but it was helpful in that I found one that would've failed to update because I had replaced the JPG
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No such conversion is required... Testing whether an image is embedded or linked is trivial with VBA. See, for example: https://www.msofficeforums.com/74369-post7.html
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