How to: Add Pictures and Word Art to Documents

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How to: Add Pictures and Word Art to Documents

Updated: November 2007

Applies to
The information in this topic applies only to the specified Visual Studio Tools for Office projects and versions of Microsoft Office. Project type Document-level projects Application-level projects Microsoft Office version Word 2003 Word 2007 For more information, see Features Available by Application and Project Type.

Applies to

The information in this topic applies only to the specified Visual Studio Tools for Office projects and versions of Microsoft Office.

Project type

Document-level projects
Application-level projects

Microsoft Office version

Word 2003
Word 2007

For more information, see Features Available by Application and Project Type.

You can add pictures and drawing objects to your documents at design time or during run time. WordArt enables you to add decorative text to Microsoft Office Word documents. These special text effects are drawing objects that you can customize and insert into your document.

Adding a Picture at Design Time

If you are developing a document-level customization, you can add a picture to the document at design time. The procedure is different for Word 2003 and Word 2007.

To add a picture to a Word 2003 document at design time

Place your cursor where you want to insert the picture in the document.
On the Insert menu, click Picture, and then click From File.
In the Insert Picture dialog box, navigate to the picture you want to insert, and click Insert.
The picture is added to your document at the current cursor location.

To add a picture to a Word 2007 document at design time

Place your cursor where you want to insert the picture in the document.
Click the Insert tab of the Ribbon.
In the Illustrations group, click Picture.
In the Insert Picture dialog box, navigate to the picture you want to insert, and click Insert.
The picture is added to your document at the current cursor location.

Adding a Picture at Run Time

You can insert a picture into a document at the current cursor location.

To add a picture at the cursor location

Call the AddPicture(String, Object%, Object%, Object%) method of InlineShapes objects and pass in the name of the file.

Visual Basic

Me.Application.Selection.InlineShapes.AddPicture("C:\SamplePicture.jpg")

this.Application.Selection.InlineShapes.AddPicture(@"C:\SamplePicture.jpg", 
    ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);

Adding WordArt at Design Time

If you are developing a document-level customization, you can add WordArt to the document at design time. The procedure is different for Word 2003 and Word 2007.

To add WordArt to a Word 2003 document at design time

Place your cursor where you want to insert the WordArt in the document.
On the Insert menu, click Picture, and then click Insert WordArt.
Select a WordArt Style from the WordArt Gallery dialog box and click OK.
Add the text that you want to appear in the document to the Edit WordArt Text dialog box and click OK.
The text is added to your document with the selected WordArt style applied.

To add WordArt to a Word 2007 document at design time

Place your cursor where you want to insert the WordArt in the document.
Click the Insert tab of the Ribbon.
In the Text group, click WordArt, and then select a WordArt style.
Add the text that you want to appear in the document to the Edit WordArt Text dialog box and click OK.
The text is added to your document with the selected WordArt style applied.

Adding WordArt at Run Time

You can insert WordArt into a document at the current cursor location. The procedure is different for document-level customizations and application-level add-ins.

To add WordArt at the cursor location in a document-level customization

Get the left and top position of the current cursor location.

Visual Basic

Dim leftPosition As Double = Me.Application.Selection.Information( _
    Word.WdInformation.wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage)

Dim topPosition As Double = Me.Application.Selection.Information( _
    Word.WdInformation.wdVerticalPositionRelativeToPage)

float leftPosition = (float)this.Application.Selection.get_Information(
    Word.WdInformation.wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage);

float topPosition = (float)this.Application.Selection.get_Information(
    Word.WdInformation.wdVerticalPositionRelativeToPage);

Call the AddTextEffect(MsoPresetTextEffect, String, String, Single, MsoTriState, MsoTriState, Single, Single, Object%) method of the Shapes object in the document.

Visual Basic

Me.Shapes.AddTextEffect( _
    Office.MsoPresetTextEffect.msoTextEffect29, "SampleText", _
    "Arial Black", 24, _
    Office.MsoTriState.msoFalse, Office.MsoTriState.msoFalse, _
    leftPosition, topPosition)

this.Shapes.AddTextEffect(
    Office.MsoPresetTextEffect.msoTextEffect29, "SampleText",
    "Arial Black", 24, 
    Office.MsoTriState.msoFalse, Office.MsoTriState.msoFalse,
    leftPosition, topPosition, ref missing);

To add WordArt at the cursor location in an application-level add-in

Get the left and top position of the current cursor location.

Visual Basic

Dim leftPosition As Double = Me.Application.Selection.Information( _
    Word.WdInformation.wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage)

Dim topPosition As Double = Me.Application.Selection.Information( _
    Word.WdInformation.wdVerticalPositionRelativeToPage)

float leftPosition = (float)this.Application.Selection.get_Information(
    Word.WdInformation.wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage);

float topPosition = (float)this.Application.Selection.get_Information(
    Word.WdInformation.wdVerticalPositionRelativeToPage);

Call the AddTextEffect(MsoPresetTextEffect, String, String, Single, MsoTriState, MsoTriState, Single, Single, Object%) method of the Shapes object of the active document.

Visual Basic

Me.Application.ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddTextEffect( _
    Office.MsoPresetTextEffect.msoTextEffect29, "SampleText", _
    "Arial Black", 24, Office.MsoTriState.msoFalse, _
    Office.MsoTriState.msoFalse, leftPosition, topPosition)

this.Application.ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddTextEffect(
    Office.MsoPresetTextEffect.msoTextEffect29, "SampleText",
    "Arial Black", 24, Office.MsoTriState.msoFalse, 
    Office.MsoTriState.msoFalse, leftPosition, topPosition, ref missing);

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