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How to Paste group of JPGs into MS Word and maintain their order?
I have a folder containing 60 JPGs that I need to copy into a new Word 2010 document. The problem is that I can't paste them into the doc and maintain the order in which they exist in the source folder.
i.e. If I copy 10 images (named Img1.jpg thru to Img10.jpg) and paste them into Word, they will appear in the order: Img5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4
Prior to copying the JPGs, if I sequentially select the pics in the order 1,2,3...10 the pasted order will be different than if I select the pics 10,9,8...1 (but they will still be out of order).
I've tried changing the default paste settings but no difference so far.
The only good thing I have learned in playing with this, is that if I perform the copy & paste function by dragging the images into the word doc, they will automatically resize to the page
i.e. If I copy 10 images (named Img1.jpg thru to Img10.jpg) and paste them into Word, they will appear in the order: Img5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4
Prior to copying the JPGs, if I sequentially select the pics in the order 1,2,3...10 the pasted order will be different than if I select the pics 10,9,8...1 (but they will still be out of order).
I've tried changing the default paste settings but no difference so far.
The only good thing I have learned in playing with this, is that if I perform the copy & paste function by dragging the images into the word doc, they will automatically resize to the page
R W
You can try Control+A select all and paste into the doc. It re sizes them automatically but if the person were to enlarge it, they can just hold the control button down and move the mouse wheel up/down or control keyboard shortcut
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I tried the Ctrl-A and copy & paste and the order of the pasted images in still scrambled. Its the order of the pasted images that I need to establish - the resize functionality was incidental.
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Eric,
Appreciate your response. Although this alternate method would actually take me longer than drag&drop for my 60 pics, it was an interesting process and I could hopefully make use of it (along with VB) if I wind up having to do this with a larger group.
Thanks again...
Appreciate your response. Although this alternate method would actually take me longer than drag&drop for my 60 pics, it was an interesting process and I could hopefully make use of it (along with VB) if I wind up having to do this with a larger group.
Thanks again...
Yes, I agree that it likely wouldn't save you a lot of time. I generally prefer to use links instead of embedding for pictures so the field code method is more suitable for my needs.
For a recent user manual project, the links were essential because the images (screen shots) were in a constant state of flux. With field codes, images can be replaced and automatically updated within the Word document as long as the image file names remain the same. Field code switches can be used to force the dimensions to stay constant as well (although I prefer to manage that with an image editor).
As noted above, links keep the Word document much smaller than if embedding is used.
For a recent user manual project, the links were essential because the images (screen shots) were in a constant state of flux. With field codes, images can be replaced and automatically updated within the Word document as long as the image file names remain the same. Field code switches can be used to force the dimensions to stay constant as well (although I prefer to manage that with an image editor).
As noted above, links keep the Word document much smaller than if embedding is used.