Elgin Computer Guy

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.

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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 Sub

You 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!

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Thanks, Mario for this information.

Tags: Microsoft, Office, Scanner, Word

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