Using VBA to change Picture

Question

I am trying to use VBA to automate the Change Picture function when you right click a Shape in Excel/Word/Powerpoint.

However, I am not able to find any reference, c

Answer 1

In Word 2010 VBA it helps to change the .visible option for that picture element you want to change.

1. set the .visible to false
2. change the picture
3. set the .visilbe to true

that worked for me.

Answer 2

I tried to imitate the original function of 'Change Picture' with VBA in PowerPoinT(PPT)

The code below tries to recover following properties of the original picture: - .Left, .Top, .Width, .Height - zOrder - Shape Name - HyperLink/ Action Settings - Animation Effects

Option Explicit

Sub ChangePicture()

    Dim sld As Slide
    Dim pic As Shape, shp As Shape
    Dim x As Single, y As Single, w As Single, h As Single
    Dim PrevName As String
    Dim z As Long
    Dim actions As ActionSettings
    Dim HasAnim As Boolean
    Dim PictureFile As String
    Dim i As Long

    On Error GoTo ErrExit:
    If ActiveWindow.Selection.Type <> ppSelectionShapes Then MsgBox "Select a picture first": Exit Sub
    Set pic = ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1)
    On Error GoTo 0

    'Open FileDialog
    With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
        .AllowMultiSelect = False
        .Filters.Clear
        .Filters.Add "Picture File", "*.emf;*.jpg;*.png;*.gif;*.bmp"
        .InitialFileName = ActivePresentation.Path & "\"
        If .Show Then PictureFile = .SelectedItems(1) Else Exit Sub
    End With

    'save some properties of the original picture
    x = pic.Left
    y = pic.Top
    w = pic.Width
    h = pic.Height
    PrevName = pic.Name
    z = pic.ZOrderPosition
    Set actions = pic.ActionSettings    'Hyperlink and action settings
    Set sld = pic.Parent
    If Not sld.TimeLine.MainSequence.FindFirstAnimationFor(pic) Is Nothing Then
        pic.PickupAnimation 'animation effect <- only supported in ver 2010 above
        HasAnim = True
    End If

    'insert new picture on the slide
    Set shp = sld.Shapes.AddPicture(PictureFile, False, True, x, y)

    'recover original property
    With shp
        .Name = "Copied_ " & PrevName

        .LockAspectRatio = False
        .Width = w
        .Height = h

        If HasAnim Then .ApplyAnimation 'recover animation effects

        'recover shape order
        .ZOrder msoSendToBack
        While .ZOrderPosition < z
            .ZOrder msoBringForward
        Wend

        'recover actions
        For i = 1 To actions.Count
            .ActionSettings(i).action = actions(i).action
            .ActionSettings(i).Run = actions(i).Run
            .ActionSettings(i).Hyperlink.Address = actions(i).Hyperlink.Address
            .ActionSettings(i).Hyperlink.SubAddress = actions(i).Hyperlink.SubAddress
        Next i

    End With

    'delete the old one
    pic.Delete
    shp.Name = Mid(shp.Name, 8)  'recover name

ErrExit:
    Set shp = Nothing
    Set pic = Nothing
    Set sld = Nothing

End Sub

How to use: I suggest you to add this macro into the Quick Access Toolbar list. (Goto Option or Right-click on the Ribbon menu)) First, select a Picture on the slide which you want to change. Then, if the FileDialog window opens, choose a new picture. It's done. By using this method, you can bypass the 'Bing Search and One-Drive Window' in ver 2016 when you want to change a picture.

In the code, there might(or should) be some mistakes or something missing. I'd appreciate it if somebody or any moderator correct those errors in the code. But mostly, I found that it works fine. Also, I admit that there are still more properties of the original shape to recover - like the line property of the shape, transparency, pictureformat and so on. I think this can be a beginning for people who want to duplicate those TOO MANY properties of a shape. I hope this is helpful to somebody.

Answer 3

So far as I know you can't change the source of a picture, you need to delete the old one and insert a new one

Here's a start

strPic ="Picture Name"
Set shp = ws.Shapes(strPic)

'Capture properties of exisitng picture such as location and size
With shp
    t = .Top
    l = .Left
    h = .Height
    w = .Width
End With

ws.Shapes(strPic).Delete

Set shp = ws.Shapes.AddPicture("Y:\our\Picture\Path\And\File.Name", msoFalse, msoTrue, l, t, w, h)
shp.Name = strPic
shp.ScaleHeight Factor:=1, RelativeToOriginalSize:=msoTrue
shp.ScaleWidth Factor:=1, RelativeToOriginalSize:=msoTrue

Answer 4

'change picture without change image size
Sub change_picture()
strPic = "Picture 1"
Set shp = Worksheets(1).Shapes(strPic)

'Capture properties of exisitng picture such as location and size
With shp
    t = .Top
    l = .Left
    h = .Height
    w = .Width
End With

Worksheets(1).Shapes(strPic).Delete

Set shp = Worksheets(1).Shapes.AddPicture("d:\pic\1.png", msoFalse, msoTrue, l, t, w, h)
shp.Name = strPic

End Sub

Answer 5

What I've done in the past is create several image controls on the form and lay them on top of each other. Then you programmatically set all images .visible = false except the one you want to show.

Answer 6

what I do is lay both images on top of eachother, and assign the macro below to both images. Obviously i've named the images "lighton" and "lightoff", so make sure you change that to your images.

Sub lightonoff()

If ActiveSheet.Shapes.Range(Array("lighton")).Visible = False Then
    ActiveSheet.Shapes.Range(Array("lighton")).Visible = True
        Else
    ActiveSheet.Shapes.Range(Array("lighton")).Visible = False
    End If

End Sub