Re: Images in Word Doc Not Displayed When Viewed on a Mac

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

You can also use the "Save a copy of the image in the file" option when
linking images. Perhaps someone could figure out if it's possible to set
that property using VBA after the fact. The setting may only be available
when inserting the image.

Aside:
File format separator on PC: \ (backslash)
File format separator on Mac: : (colon)

In VBA, you can get around this difference by using the
Application.PathSeparator object. I've done quite a bit of VBA development
between Office:Windows and Office:Mac 2011.

-Tony




On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:14 PM, An Tran <atran -at- bstonetech -dot- com> wrote:

> Even if the user has access to where the images are located, the file path
> of the reference needs to be the same for each user. Because it's a Mac,
> this is very unlikely (I don't know the nomenclature for OSX filepaths, but
> I can guarantee that it's different).
>
> You are better off embedding the images into the Word Document so that
> it's self-referential. This increases the file size significantly, but
> makes the document tremendously more portable. Although, yes, if the user
> isn't actively making any edits or commenting on the document, a PDF is
> superior for file transfer.
>
> Andy Tran
> Associate Management Consultant
> Blackstone Technology Group
> Mobile: 571-451-4780
> atran -at- bstonetech -dot- com <mailto:atran -at- bstonetech -dot- com>
> www.bstonetech.com <http://www.bstonetech.com/>
>
>
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