How to Add a custom hidden object in MS Word document?

[Ahmad Jalil Qarshi]

hi!

i am working in VC7. I want to add a custom object (Image+Data) into the MS
Word Document. The Data will be something related to the image i.e name of
the image, format details etc and will be linked to the image shown on the
word document. Further more the data will be hidden. i.e. not visible to the
viewer of the document.

i have added the image into the Word document using the following code.

VARIANT var1; VariantInit(&var1);

VARIANT var2; VariantInit(&var2);

var1.vt = VT_BOOL; var1.boolVal = true; //SaveWithDocument

var2.vt = VT_BOOL; var2.boolVal = false; //LinkToFile

spSelect->InlineShapes->AddPicture("C:\\Documents and
Settings\\ahmadjalil\\My Documents\\My Pictures\\Sample.jpg",&var2,&var1);

VariantClear(&var1); VariantClear(&var2);



where spSelect is smart pointer of type Selection Object.



if some one knows about that. Please help me.


Thanks in advance.

Ahmad Jalil Qarshi

 

[Bill Coan]

Hi Ahmad,

I don't know of any way in Word to permanently link hidden data to a
particular inline shape.

Inline shapes have an AlternativeText property that could be used to store
some information about the inline shape. The user won't normally see the
alternative text, but a curious user could certainly find it, so this
approach won't help if you're concerned with security in some way.

The easiest way to assign a value to the AlternativeText property is to make
sure you assign the inline shape to an object variable when the inline shape
is added to the document. The following code shows how to do this in Word's
vba macro language. It shouldn't be too hard to convert this into the
equivalent VC7 code.

'create a variable to serve as a
'pointer to the new inline shape
Dim objInlineShape As InlineShape

'insert a new inline shape and
'assign it to the variable
Set objInlineShape = _
Selection.InlineShapes.AddPicture(FileName:= _
"C:\test.jpg", _
LinkToFile:=False, _
SaveWithDocument:=True)

'Set the inline shape's alternative text
objInlineShape.AlternativeText = "My Hidden Code"

For a higher level of security, you use the AlternativeText property to
store the name of a Document Variable or a Custom Document Property, and
then store your hidden data in that Document Variable of Custom Document
Property. Code for working with these items is readily available in the Word
vba newsgroup via a google search.

I hope this helps.

Bill Coan
(e-mail address removed)

hi!

i am working in VC7. I want to add a custom object (Image+Data) into the
MS
Word Document. The Data will be something related to the image i.e name of
the image, format details etc and will be linked to the image shown on the
word document. Further more the data will be hidden. i.e. not visible to
the
viewer of the document.

i have added the image into the Word document using the following code.

VARIANT var1; VariantInit(&var1);

VARIANT var2; VariantInit(&var2);

var1.vt = VT_BOOL; var1.boolVal = true; //SaveWithDocument

var2.vt = VT_BOOL; var2.boolVal = false; //LinkToFile

spSelect->InlineShapes->AddPicture("C:\\Documents and
Settings\\ahmadjalil\\My Documents\\My Pictures\\Sample.jpg",&var2,&var1);

VariantClear(&var1); VariantClear(&var2);



where spSelect is smart pointer of type Selection Object.



if some one knows about that. Please help me.


Thanks in advance.

Ahmad Jalil Qarshi

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

What about a document level tag that stores the metadata about the image and
the name of the shape that represents the image (or some other way of
identifying it in a way that you could later use to get a reference to the
image)? In PPT, for example, you could store a tag value like:

SlideID|ShapeName

(or store them as two separate tags, whatever works best).

Parse to get the location and name of the shape and from that you can reference
it directly.

Obviously the details of getting AT the thing in Word would be different.
Possible too? Over to you, sir.