Picture Placeholder on a PC vs. Mac

[Tammy]

In Word 2004 on a Mac, I was able to set a picture box which included a for
placement only picture as a "placeholder" so another user could open the
document and just click on my placeholder to insert their picture. The other
person is using Word 2003 on a PC and it doesn't work. Looking into it, I
don't see the "placeholder" option in the advanced format picture window.
Does anyone know if there is a way to create a picture placeholder in Word
2003? Perhaps it's called something else. THanks.

 

[PJY]

In Word 2003, you can go to Insert/Object/Microsoft Word Picture. This will
create text boundaries in which you can insert your picture. You can save and
close the document without inserting a picture in it and then reopen it,
double click on the picture outline and insert your picture. This is the
closest you will get, I think.

 

[Tammy]

Hello. Thanks for your reply but this wasn't what i was looking for. I need
to send a document off to a client who needs to see an actual picture in the
document but once they click on the picture it will bring up a dialog box to
locate another picture that they can swap the original out with. This was
easily achieved on a Mac in Word 2004 by clicking the "picture placeholder"
button however the client is working on a PC and when I opened this on a PC
to test it out, trying to click on the picture did absolutely nothing as this
effect did not transfer cross platform. I am hoping that someone will have a
work around if there is one for this. If not, does anyone know if a newer
version of Word for the PC would achieve this result? thanks.