Link to online picture

[iCat]

I have a friend who is teaching a G.I.S. concepts class to his son's fifth grade. My friend developed the class on his PC, but then found out the whole school uses Macs, and the process he developed is not working on Word for Mac.

For the class, he wants to link to an online picture in the document, something easily done on a PC in Word by clicking Insert > Picture > From File, then in the "File Name" area, paste the URL to the internet picture, then click the down arrow beside Insert and choose Link to File. The picture is displayed in the document only if there is an active Internet connect, and it is stored as a link to the picture's url, not the picture itself.

Is there a way to do this using Word on a Mac? Thank you in advance for your help?

 

[Ritika Pathak [MSFT]]

Hi There,

In MacWord, you will have to insert the picture first (via copy/paste from online source) and go to Edit | Hyperlink dialog or press Cmd+K to add hyperlink to the picture.

Unfortunately, there is no provision to directly insert a picture linked to an online source in MacWord.

Hope this helps!
Ritika

I have a friend who is teaching a G.I.S. concepts class to his son's fifth grade. My friend developed the class on his PC, but then found out the whole school uses Macs, and the process he developed is not working on Word for Mac.

For the class, he wants to link to an online picture in the document, something easily done on a PC in Word by clicking Insert > Picture > From File, then in the "File Name" area, paste the URL to the internet picture, then click the down arrow beside Insert and choose Link to File. The picture is displayed in the document only if there is an active Internet connect, and it is stored as a link to the picture's url, not the picture itself.

Is there a way to do this using Word on a Mac? Thank you in advance for your help?