How to identify a particular inlineshape in VBA ?

[truk2]

I'm trying to come up with a method to programmatically adjust or replace images/charts in Word for mac. My idea is to provide a list of images to be imported, and the name of the target Shape in the document.

As Shapes have a .name property, it is trival to find a shape object with the correct name, copy it's position and size properties, and insert a new image to the same position.

However if the image is an INLINEshape, there is no .name property. I don't even see an easy way tell what index an inline shape is unless that index was already known. At this point the ONLY reliable method I can think of is to have the user be prompted to MANUALLY select the appropriate image that next needs to be changed. This is not acceptable as there may be a list of hundreds of images to find and change.

How can I pass an identifier of some kind to my macro, and ensure that I am referring to the correct inlineshape?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Andy Pope]

Could you not make use of the Bookmark property of the inline shape?

[truk2]

Could you not make use of the Bookmark property of the inline shape?

InlineShape does not have a bookmark property.

Do you mean to set a bookmark, and have that range refer to the position of the shape? How would I be able to externally record a reference to a bookmark?

[Andy Pope]

Yes I mean add a bookmark, which can have a name, to the inlineshape or space just before it.

You could loop through the inlineshapes collection adding bookmarks.
Not sure what you mean by 'externally record a reference to a bookmark'

[truk2]

Well I need to read a list of images, and match them to the target images that will be replaces. I think that saving the name of the book mark will work, so I'll consider this solved.
Thanks.