A client recently upgraded to Office 2007 and asked me how to scan an image into a Word document the way she used to in Word 2003. We searched briefly but couldn’t find it. I did some searching online and found a solution on LockerGnome. Here is the an edited version of the post. It worked beautifully for me.
Hi - after much searching and testing I found a macro that brings up the old ‘insert from scanner’ box that was available in previous versions of Word. This does rely on you having scanning software/driver installed.Create the following Macro (View > Macro > View Macros > Macros in Normal.dotm > Type ’scan’ as the name > Create > Paste in code:
Sub InsertFromScanner()
On Error Resume Next
WordBasic.InsertImagerScan
End SubYou can then ‘Customise the Quick Access Toolbar’ > choose commands from: ‘Macros’ and ADD. Then Modify it to give it a distinctive icon.
This will give you the ‘insert from scanner’ box with one click from the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT).
<SNIP>I hope this helps someone out there avoid hours of research!
Thanks, Mario for this information.
I just started a project where I need to scan a lot of B&W pages into Word or Acrobat and we don’t have any OCR software, but we do have Office 2007. By installing MicroSoft Office Document Imaging, I can scan and OCR directly into Word and also save as a PDF. It works very well.
Let me know if you want more info. I might try the above macro too.
Regards,
Tom
thanks, Mario for your research and good information for the scanning of a document.
Hey, i came across your page on yahoo and i think it’s cool!
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