Word: Linked Pictures Moved – What Now?

Suppose you have a “MyBook” folder in your Documents folder, which contains the “Kapitel01-05.docx” file and the “Pictures” folder. You can now either pass the “Kapitel01-05.docx” file and the “Pictures” folder to another person, or copy the Word file and the Pictures folder to another computer. If the pictures are only inserted via a link, as recommended in the other article, they may not be displayed on the recipient’s computer.

Advice: There are four ways to address this problem. The author advises: if there are few pictures, it is better to choose «Option 2». If there is much, to the “Alternative 4”, which Microsoft is probably fond of.

Variable 1: .doc instead of .docx and find / replace

Even if the .doc file type is outdated and .docx is generally recommended today, the image path specification can be invoked in the old file type, which you can use Find and replace May affect. This is advice that you read in many places, so it should be taken up here as well.

This is how it is done: Open the affected document and go to File / Save As. In the file type At the top right, choose Word 97-2003-Dokument (* .doc) And click To save.

Select all text using Control+a (Control+a). With alternative+F9 Toggle “Fields” to Code View. This makes the image path information visible.

Find the part in the image path (the error) that you can replace with a valid one, for example Desktop / Test / Sample book 2 linked / Pictures / by Docs / MyBook / Photos /. And that’s exactly what I gave him in the tab Start Across Edit / replace in the order.

Select all the text again (Control+a) And toggle the field function display with alternative+F9 Abroad again. If the pictures don’t appear yet, go to File information. In the lower right, next to “Related documents,” click Edit file links, Select the image files and choose Update now.

Now the images should come back and you can use the file again via File / Save As Such as .docxSave the file. Don’t forget to click a file The Compatibility mode To get rid of it by converting the file to its current format turns up.

Attention: Pictures that you have edited in Word, for example with layout changes and the like, will likely not be placed correctly again this way. This is across Edit file / information / links to files Manual correction is still required. See the following advice on this.