VBA-Excel: Add/Insert a Image/Picture in Word Document

To Add or Insert Images or Pictures in Microsoft Word Document using Microsoft Excel, you need to follow the steps below:

• Create the object of Microsoft Word
• Using MS word object, Open the existing word document by providing the complete path
• Make the MS Word visible
• Create a Selection object with the help of WordObject.
• Set  Shapes object using InlineShapes
• Insert image in the word documents using AddPicture()

Create the object of Microsoft Word

Set objWord = CreateObject(“Word.Application”)

Using MS word object, Open the existing word document by providing the complete path

Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\OpenMe.docx")

Make the MS Word Visible

objWord.Visible = True

Create a Selection object with the help of WordObject.

Set objSelection = objWord.Selection

Set  Shapes object using InlineShapes

Set objShapes = objDoc.InlineShapes

Insert image in the word documents using AddPicture()

objShapes.AddPicture (strCompleteImagePath)

Complete Code:

Function FnImageInsert(strCompleteImagePath)

   Dim objWord

   Dim objDoc

   Dim objSelection

 Dim objShapes    

   Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

   Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\OpenMe.docx")

   objWord.Visible = True    

   Set objSelection = objWord.Selection

   objSelection.TypeText (vbCrLf & "One Picture will be inserted here....")

   Set objShapes = objDoc.InlineShapes

 objShapes.AddPicture (strCompleteImagePath)        

End Function

 Call FnImageInsert("D:\After_Rain.jpg")

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