insert PDF file into Word 2000 Doc

[jadams0173]

In the middle of a project I've been thrown a curve by the requester. They have just told me that on several occasions they insert other files into the word document like this. Insert > Object > Create from File > Browse > Select File and then they check the Display as Icon box.

I recorded a macro to see how I was to go about this and here is what I got.

    Selection.InlineShapes.AddOLEObject ClassType:="AcroExch.Document.7", _
        FileName:="C:\documents\AAA beach directions.pdf", LinkToFile:=False, _
        DisplayAsIcon:=True, IconFileName:= _
        "C:\WINDOWS\Installer\{AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7B44-A80000000002}\PDFFile_8.ico" _
        , IconIndex:=0, IconLabel:="""AAA beach directions.pdf"""

Can this be done any better? A little reading here suggests that the macro recorder and InlineShapes are not always best friends. Some posts suggested there were limitations of inlineshapes when using the macro recorder.

Any thoughts?

 

[Chance1234]

Depends on how you are implenting it into your code, is it going to be a macro the user runs and it inserts the pdf at that point in the document, or is it part of a bigger routine. ?

Chance,

F, G + _HH

 

[jadams0173]

It's part of a bigger routine. I'm actually going to try and run the code from VB6. I'm populating a word doc full of bookmarks and text form fields. Last minute I get the above request to add this functionality. I've got a VB6 class that does the work of populates the doc, and somehow I hope to incorperate this in it. But I generally try to start with a VBA macro and massage the code from there.

 

[Chance1234]

How about inserting a table and then adding the pdf to one of the cells ?

Chance,

F, G + _HH

 

[jadams0173]

Would that display the entire contents of the pdf in cell? Currently the users just insert the file as an icon.

 

[Chance1234]

only as a icon, to display the contents you would need to look into somethign like adobe distiller

Chance,

F, G + _HH

 

[jadams0173]

I'll see what I can do with the table approach. I only want an icon, so that's good.