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    Red face Can't Insert Image Using URL Method From Images Hosted On Photobucket.

    Hello All!

    I am new to Excel Forum and I have a question about my first post that I just made.

    I wanted to include several images in my post so, as I was writing it, I clicked the Insert Image button on the toolbar. Since I had the images stored on my local computer I chose the From Computer option, selected the image, then clicked Upload Files. The result was that, at the spot where my cursor was, a tag was created like the following: [ATTACH]XXXXXX[/ATTACH].

    The actual image didn't show up right away as I was typing the post so I assumed that after the post was submitted the image would show up in-line and in the proper place. It did not, however. At the location(s) where I expected my images to show all there was was a clickable link with the name being the name of the image.

    I wanted my post to display the images in-line so I decided to try using the option to insert the images via URL and see if that would do the trick. To do this I first uploaded my images to Photobucket. Then, I copied the direct link to the image from the Photobucket page and pasted it into the URL field of the Upload Image dialog and clicked OK.

    After about 2 seconds a browser error message popped up saying the following:

    "error: This GIF image has the incorrect file extension."

    Here is the direct link to one of the images I was trying to upload:

    http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps2ba8cf5c.png

    As you can see when you click that link that it opens an image and the format/file extension is .PNG image. This proves that the link is valid and that it refers to a .PNG image (not a .GIF as the error message suggested).

    I don't understand why I am getting this error. The image file format was originally created and saved as PNG using Paint.NET. I then uploaded the images to Photobucket. I assume Photbucket doesn't change the image format do anything else to it during an upload. Also, when looking at the direct image link in Photobucket the file name (the last part of the image direct link) has the extension .PNG which, according to the Insert Image dialog is one of the accepted image formats (along with .JPEG, .JPG, GIF).

    The first question I have is why does the error message say "This GIF image..." when the file is of type PNG? Is there something strange about the way Photobucket stores images which doesn't work with Excel Forum?

    If this is a problem between Excel Forum and Photobucket can anyone recommend an alternative image hosting site to use that is known to work with Excel Forum?

    Also, can anyone tell me if there is a way to get the images to show "in-line" on my posts and not as clickable links when using the From Computer (Attachment) method?

    Thank you,

    Jan
    Last edited by tackyjan; 05-02-2014 at 09:57 PM.

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    Re: Can't Insert Image Using URL Method From Images Hosted On Photobucket.

    images uploading or not,why are you posting images? when you can upload workbooks ?
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