Hi Smurf,
In this case it's not broken. Many scanners can send to Microsoft Word with a newer interface than the one that was provided in MS
Office without that command. It was intentionally removed from the User Interface in the Office 2007 apps by Microsoft as it's not
terribly reliable on its own.
It's still available via the Office Clipart Manager and in the Office apps. In Word you can use several approaches. Note that the
feature is a legacy one, 'as is', so use at your own risk, if you insist on using the inbuilt choice.
MS Office Document Imaging and Scanning is also still available as an optional install feature.
Here are 3 methods you can use in Word.
A. Word 2007 keyboard shortcut method:
1. Use the Word 2007 Keyboard customization utility to assign a keyboard shortcut
a. Alt, T, O, C - to get to the customization dialog
b. Choose "Keyboard shortcut[Customize]
c. Select the 'All Commands' Category.
d. Scroll the 'Commands' list to InsertImagerScan
e. Assign a keyboard shortcut of your choice.
B. Macro (reusable custom command) Method:
Create a Word 2007 macro to add to the Quick Access Toolbar.
1. Use Alt+F8 to start the Macros dialog
2. In the Macros dialog, for 'Macro name' type
FromScannerToWord2007
3. Still in the Macros dialog choose 'Macros in'
to be either 'Normal.dotm (global template)' or
'All active templates and documents'
to determine where this macro will work.
4. Still in the Macros dialog Click 'Create' to launch
the Microsoft Visual Basic editor.
5. Paste the following between the lines named
Sub FromScannerToWord2007
and
End Sub
'===First pasted line===================
'Word2007 call to Scanner software
'Macro by Bob Buckland ?
March 2007
'Use at own risk
'
On Error go to Oops
WordBasic.InsertImagerScan
'
Oops:
'===last pasted line====================
6. In the 'Visual Basic' dialog click the 'save' icon.
7. Close Word. If prompted to update Global/Normal template, agree.
8. Restart Word
9. Right click on the Quick Access Toolbar
10. Select 'Customize Quick Access Toolbar
11. In 'Choose Commands from' select 'Macros
12. Hover over the items listed to find
FromScannerToWord2007
13. When the macro entry is found Add it to
the Quick Access Toolbar list then click
[Modify] to choose an icon to use for this
14. Close and restart Word to check to see if it works.
Note: You can also assign a keyboard shortcut to the macro along the same method used in 'A', above.
C. Import Old Toolbar Method from earlier Word version.
Import the Insert Picture=>From Scanner
command an earlier Word version (if available to use)
1. In Word 2000, 2002 or 2003 use
Tools=>Customize=>Toolbars
and click on '[New...]'
2. In the 'New Toolbar' dialog name the Toolbar
'From Scanner'
'
3. Still in the 'New Toolbar' dialog choose
'Document 1'
from 'Make Toolbar Available in'
4. Still in the 'New Toolbar' dialog click [OK]
and leave the 'Customize' dialog open.
5. From the Insert=>Picture menu
hold the ctrl key and drag a copy of
'From Scanner or Camera...'
to your new, floating, toolbar.
6. On your new toolbar right click on the
icon for Scanner and choose
'Image and Text'
7. Close the 'Customize' dialog.
8. Choose File=>Save As and save the file as
a 'Document Template' (.dot)
named InsertFromScanner
9. Close Word 2000, 2002 or 2003 and if prompted to
save changes to the Normal template, choose No.
10. On your Word 2007 machine locate your
InsertFromScanner(.dot) template
right click it and choose copy.
11. Start Word 2007 and go to the 'Trust Center'
(Alt, T, O) and select
[Trust Center Settings=>Trusted Locations]
12. In the 'Trusted Locations' list select the
\Word\Startup\
location and click [Modify]
13. In the 'Microsoft Office Trusted Location' dialog
select [Browse...]
14. When the 'Startup' folder dialog is open click over the
empty space where filenames would normally appear,
right click and choose 'paste' then click [Cancel]
15. Cancel three more times to get back to Word 2007.
16. Start Word 2007 and the scanner icon should be
available in the 'Add-Ins' tab. If not then use
Word 2007 options to check your settings for
macro security and add-ins to see if you have disabled
macros.
Note: Word 2007 will import separate custom menus and toolbars you created using Method 'C', but will not show customizations of
Word's 'usual' toolbars and menus.
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The scanning option for text documens and pictures is missing in Word 2007.
This is a must have for most folks. Does anyone know if Microsoft plans to
fix this with a patch? <<
--
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
