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How to input pictures automatically based on cell input?
I am trying to create a template so I can have 6 photos load automatically to
one of the worksheets. The photos will come from a folder on my hard drive and Excel will look in the folder based on my input of one cell. The photos will be labelled with numbers 1-6. So the path will be exactly the same each time, the only variable will be the one folder name. I have created a large worksheet to track my real estate properties for sale, and one of the worksheets is a flyer. So the pictures need to be placed precisely where they are supposed to go. I realize Publisher is a better flyer program, but I have everything else in Excel, and this way the price, address, etc. will auto-fill for me based on what I input on the first worksheet. I save all the workbooks as the property address, so I was hoping to just insert the address into the filepath to go grab pictures #1, 2, etc. |
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How to input pictures automatically based on cell input?
Look at
http://www.exceltip.com/st/Insert_pi...el/486.htmlfor a macro based solution... "bsharp" wrote: I am trying to create a template so I can have 6 photos load automatically to one of the worksheets. The photos will come from a folder on my hard drive and Excel will look in the folder based on my input of one cell. The photos will be labelled with numbers 1-6. So the path will be exactly the same each time, the only variable will be the one folder name. I have created a large worksheet to track my real estate properties for sale, and one of the worksheets is a flyer. So the pictures need to be placed precisely where they are supposed to go. I realize Publisher is a better flyer program, but I have everything else in Excel, and this way the price, address, etc. will auto-fill for me based on what I input on the first worksheet. I save all the workbooks as the property address, so I was hoping to just insert the address into the filepath to go grab pictures #1, 2, etc. |
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How to input pictures automatically based on cell input?
Thanks for trying, but that doesn't really address my issue. Looks like that
link tells me how to insert a picture one time. But I'm looking to enter the name of a folder in a cell, then have Excel insert that value into the path to go retrieve the picture at that location. So if I put a different folder name in a cell, a different picture will be retrieved. For example, I want to have a cell titled - Property Address. Then if I enter "123 Main St" the picture at \pictures\123 main st\1.jpg will be retrieved. But I want the picture placed on another worksheet. "Sheeloo" wrote: Look at http://www.exceltip.com/st/Insert_pi...el/486.htmlfor a macro based solution... "bsharp" wrote: I am trying to create a template so I can have 6 photos load automatically to one of the worksheets. The photos will come from a folder on my hard drive and Excel will look in the folder based on my input of one cell. The photos will be labelled with numbers 1-6. So the path will be exactly the same each time, the only variable will be the one folder name. I have created a large worksheet to track my real estate properties for sale, and one of the worksheets is a flyer. So the pictures need to be placed precisely where they are supposed to go. I realize Publisher is a better flyer program, but I have everything else in Excel, and this way the price, address, etc. will auto-fill for me based on what I input on the first worksheet. I save all the workbooks as the property address, so I was hoping to just insert the address into the filepath to go grab pictures #1, 2, etc. |
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How to input pictures automatically based on cell input?
You can adapt that code to read the path from your cell... you can set it to
execute automatically whenever the input cell changes. "bsharp" wrote: Thanks for trying, but that doesn't really address my issue. Looks like that link tells me how to insert a picture one time. But I'm looking to enter the name of a folder in a cell, then have Excel insert that value into the path to go retrieve the picture at that location. So if I put a different folder name in a cell, a different picture will be retrieved. For example, I want to have a cell titled - Property Address. Then if I enter "123 Main St" the picture at \pictures\123 main st\1.jpg will be retrieved. But I want the picture placed on another worksheet. "Sheeloo" wrote: Look at http://www.exceltip.com/st/Insert_pi...el/486.htmlfor a macro based solution... "bsharp" wrote: I am trying to create a template so I can have 6 photos load automatically to one of the worksheets. The photos will come from a folder on my hard drive and Excel will look in the folder based on my input of one cell. The photos will be labelled with numbers 1-6. So the path will be exactly the same each time, the only variable will be the one folder name. I have created a large worksheet to track my real estate properties for sale, and one of the worksheets is a flyer. So the pictures need to be placed precisely where they are supposed to go. I realize Publisher is a better flyer program, but I have everything else in Excel, and this way the price, address, etc. will auto-fill for me based on what I input on the first worksheet. I save all the workbooks as the property address, so I was hoping to just insert the address into the filepath to go grab pictures #1, 2, etc. |
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How to input pictures automatically based on cell input?
Thanks.
Can you help me with the syntax? Let's say I have the folder name in A1, how do I change this line? Do I just put =A1 instead of "FolderName"? Or does it need a bracket or something to tell it it's a cell reference and not text? InsertPicture "C:\FolderName\PictureFileName.gif", _ "Sheeloo" wrote: You can adapt that code to read the path from your cell... you can set it to execute automatically whenever the input cell changes. "bsharp" wrote: Thanks for trying, but that doesn't really address my issue. Looks like that link tells me how to insert a picture one time. But I'm looking to enter the name of a folder in a cell, then have Excel insert that value into the path to go retrieve the picture at that location. So if I put a different folder name in a cell, a different picture will be retrieved. For example, I want to have a cell titled - Property Address. Then if I enter "123 Main St" the picture at \pictures\123 main st\1.jpg will be retrieved. But I want the picture placed on another worksheet. "Sheeloo" wrote: Look at http://www.exceltip.com/st/Insert_pi...el/486.htmlfor a macro based solution... "bsharp" wrote: I am trying to create a template so I can have 6 photos load automatically to one of the worksheets. The photos will come from a folder on my hard drive and Excel will look in the folder based on my input of one cell. The photos will be labelled with numbers 1-6. So the path will be exactly the same each time, the only variable will be the one folder name. I have created a large worksheet to track my real estate properties for sale, and one of the worksheets is a flyer. So the pictures need to be placed precisely where they are supposed to go. I realize Publisher is a better flyer program, but I have everything else in Excel, and this way the price, address, etc. will auto-fill for me based on what I input on the first worksheet. I save all the workbooks as the property address, so I was hoping to just insert the address into the filepath to go grab pictures #1, 2, etc. |
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How to input pictures automatically based on cell input?
The macro which calls the macro to insert the picture is
Sub TestInsertPicture() InsertPicture "C:\FolderName\PictureFileName.gif", _ Range("D10"), True, True End Sub You can modify it to Sub TestInsertPicture() folderName= ThisWorkbook.WorkSheets("Sheet1").Cells(1,1) InsertPicture folderName & "PictureFileName.gif", _ Range("D10"), True, True End Sub Cells(i,j) refers to ith row and jth column Replace Sheet1 by the actual sheet name It will insert the picture in D10... you can change that too. You can also put pictureFileName.jpg in another cell and refer to that or the whole path+name in A1 and remove the part & "PictureFileName.gif" "bsharp" wrote: Thanks. Can you help me with the syntax? Let's say I have the folder name in A1, how do I change this line? Do I just put =A1 instead of "FolderName"? Or does it need a bracket or something to tell it it's a cell reference and not text? InsertPicture "C:\FolderName\PictureFileName.gif", _ "Sheeloo" wrote: You can adapt that code to read the path from your cell... you can set it to execute automatically whenever the input cell changes. "bsharp" wrote: Thanks for trying, but that doesn't really address my issue. Looks like that link tells me how to insert a picture one time. But I'm looking to enter the name of a folder in a cell, then have Excel insert that value into the path to go retrieve the picture at that location. So if I put a different folder name in a cell, a different picture will be retrieved. For example, I want to have a cell titled - Property Address. Then if I enter "123 Main St" the picture at \pictures\123 main st\1.jpg will be retrieved. But I want the picture placed on another worksheet. "Sheeloo" wrote: Look at http://www.exceltip.com/st/Insert_pi...el/486.htmlfor a macro based solution... "bsharp" wrote: I am trying to create a template so I can have 6 photos load automatically to one of the worksheets. The photos will come from a folder on my hard drive and Excel will look in the folder based on my input of one cell. The photos will be labelled with numbers 1-6. So the path will be exactly the same each time, the only variable will be the one folder name. I have created a large worksheet to track my real estate properties for sale, and one of the worksheets is a flyer. So the pictures need to be placed precisely where they are supposed to go. I realize Publisher is a better flyer program, but I have everything else in Excel, and this way the price, address, etc. will auto-fill for me based on what I input on the first worksheet. I save all the workbooks as the property address, so I was hoping to just insert the address into the filepath to go grab pictures #1, 2, etc. |
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How to input pictures automatically based on cell input?
I appreciate your efforts, really I do. But I still don't think this solves
my problem. You say, "Replace Sheet1 by the actual sheet name" I don't want to have to go into the macro and change the sheet name. I want to be able to enter the folder name into a cell in my worksheet, and then based on that input the macro goes and looks in that location. Is that what your suggestion will do? It just doesn't look like it to me, but I'm no macro-expert! "Sheeloo" wrote: The macro which calls the macro to insert the picture is Sub TestInsertPicture() InsertPicture "C:\FolderName\PictureFileName.gif", _ Range("D10"), True, True End Sub You can modify it to Sub TestInsertPicture() folderName= ThisWorkbook.WorkSheets("Sheet1").Cells(1,1) InsertPicture folderName & "PictureFileName.gif", _ Range("D10"), True, True End Sub Cells(i,j) refers to ith row and jth column Replace Sheet1 by the actual sheet name It will insert the picture in D10... you can change that too. You can also put pictureFileName.jpg in another cell and refer to that or the whole path+name in A1 and remove the part & "PictureFileName.gif" "bsharp" wrote: Thanks. Can you help me with the syntax? Let's say I have the folder name in A1, how do I change this line? Do I just put =A1 instead of "FolderName"? Or does it need a bracket or something to tell it it's a cell reference and not text? InsertPicture "C:\FolderName\PictureFileName.gif", _ "Sheeloo" wrote: You can adapt that code to read the path from your cell... you can set it to execute automatically whenever the input cell changes. "bsharp" wrote: Thanks for trying, but that doesn't really address my issue. Looks like that link tells me how to insert a picture one time. But I'm looking to enter the name of a folder in a cell, then have Excel insert that value into the path to go retrieve the picture at that location. So if I put a different folder name in a cell, a different picture will be retrieved. For example, I want to have a cell titled - Property Address. Then if I enter "123 Main St" the picture at \pictures\123 main st\1.jpg will be retrieved. But I want the picture placed on another worksheet. "Sheeloo" wrote: Look at http://www.exceltip.com/st/Insert_pi...el/486.htmlfor a macro based solution... "bsharp" wrote: I am trying to create a template so I can have 6 photos load automatically to one of the worksheets. The photos will come from a folder on my hard drive and Excel will look in the folder based on my input of one cell. The photos will be labelled with numbers 1-6. So the path will be exactly the same each time, the only variable will be the one folder name. I have created a large worksheet to track my real estate properties for sale, and one of the worksheets is a flyer. So the pictures need to be placed precisely where they are supposed to go. I realize Publisher is a better flyer program, but I have everything else in Excel, and this way the price, address, etc. will auto-fill for me based on what I input on the first worksheet. I save all the workbooks as the property address, so I was hoping to just insert the address into the filepath to go grab pictures #1, 2, etc. |
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How to input pictures automatically based on cell input?
download the file I have created from
http://wikisend.com/download/542874/InsertImage.xls Enter the complete path of the folder containing 1.jpg in A1... When you click on the button it will insert 1.jpg "bsharp" wrote: I appreciate your efforts, really I do. But I still don't think this solves my problem. You say, "Replace Sheet1 by the actual sheet name" I don't want to have to go into the macro and change the sheet name. I want to be able to enter the folder name into a cell in my worksheet, and then based on that input the macro goes and looks in that location. Is that what your suggestion will do? It just doesn't look like it to me, but I'm no macro-expert! |
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How to input pictures automatically based on cell input?
Beautiful, thanks so much for doing that.
At first it didn't work, but then I added a "\" right before "1.jpg" and then it worked. Only problem now is it put the picture is very large, I want it to hit a smaller defined area, but I can search that out on the forums here to see if that is discussed. I think I saw some other threads about sizing and placing the image. But you got me past the hard part, thanks! "Sheeloo" wrote: download the file I have created from http://wikisend.com/download/542874/InsertImage.xls Enter the complete path of the folder containing 1.jpg in A1... When you click on the button it will insert 1.jpg "bsharp" wrote: I appreciate your efforts, really I do. But I still don't think this solves my problem. You say, "Replace Sheet1 by the actual sheet name" I don't want to have to go into the macro and change the sheet name. I want to be able to enter the folder name into a cell in my worksheet, and then based on that input the macro goes and looks in that location. Is that what your suggestion will do? It just doesn't look like it to me, but I'm no macro-expert! |
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How to input pictures automatically based on cell input?
You are welcome...
The second function at the page I had shared centers the picture across you range of cells... "bsharp" wrote: Beautiful, thanks so much for doing that. At first it didn't work, but then I added a "\" right before "1.jpg" and then it worked. Only problem now is it put the picture is very large, I want it to hit a smaller defined area, but I can search that out on the forums here to see if that is discussed. I think I saw some other threads about sizing and placing the image. But you got me past the hard part, thanks! "Sheeloo" wrote: download the file I have created from http://wikisend.com/download/542874/InsertImage.xls Enter the complete path of the folder containing 1.jpg in A1... When you click on the button it will insert 1.jpg "bsharp" wrote: I appreciate your efforts, really I do. But I still don't think this solves my problem. You say, "Replace Sheet1 by the actual sheet name" I don't want to have to go into the macro and change the sheet name. I want to be able to enter the folder name into a cell in my worksheet, and then based on that input the macro goes and looks in that location. Is that what your suggestion will do? It just doesn't look like it to me, but I'm no macro-expert! |
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