Problem with destination frame when inserting drawing/image in Word 2002 on XP

[Dave Neve]

Hi

I'm trying to improve my 'Word' skills during the hols and I need a bit of
support (again).

I can now create frames in Word and introduce hyperlinks with another frame
as destination (round of applause!)

This works for me as long as the hyperlink inserts a Word document in
another frame.

But when I try to do the same with an image/drawing (.bmp, .jpg), the
image/drawing is opened by its corresponding program (eg Microsoft Picture
Editor, Window Fax viewer) in a new window and not in the destination frame.

At first, I thought this might be because of the size of the image/drawing
being too big for a fixed frame but this happens even with small miniatures.

What gives???

Thanks in advance yet again.

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Dave,

I think the better place to ask this would be in the word.webauthoring group.

Note, however, that a hyperlink basically opens a file in its "native"
program. A graphic file is not "native" to Word; Word is not a browser. What
you probably need is macro code that will INSERT the graphic into a Word
document in that other "frame". And for that you probably need a MacroButton
field that displays text that *looks* like a hyperlink.

And if what you're doing is constructing a website, then I advise you to
forget Word, at this point, and use FrontPage or some other webpage editor.

I can now create frames in Word and introduce hyperlinks with another frame
as destination (round of applause!)

This works for me as long as the hyperlink inserts a Word document in
another frame.

But when I try to do the same with an image/drawing (.bmp, .jpg), the
image/drawing is opened by its corresponding program (eg Microsoft Picture
Editor, Window Fax viewer) in a new window and not in the destination frame.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Dave Neve]

Thanks Cindy.

You've hit the nail on the head.

As ''frames' appears in Word and Frontpage, I was assuming that they would
both work exactly the same and 'destination frame' does exist in Word.
But it's clearly not the same when it comes to .JPG etc and I 'couldn't see
the wood for the trees'