Insert a picture
When filling out a form, you can insert pictures into picture fields and rich text fields. When designing a form, you can add pictures to your form as embedded objects or as linked objects, which can help reduce the form's file size. Also, when designing a form, you can insert a picture control, which like rich text controls, lets users insert pictures into a form when they fill it out.
Note You can also insert pictures by using the Microsoft Clip Organizer.
Insert a picture when filling out a form
Insert a picture into a picture field
- Click on a field that contains the picture icon
. - In the Insert Picture dialog box, select the picture you want to insert, and then click Insert.
Insert pictures onto other parts of a form
- Click in the form where you want to insert the picture.
- On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click From File.
Note If the Picture option is not available, you may be attempting to insert a picture into a field for which this is not allowed.
- In the Insert Picture dialog box, select the picture you want to insert, and then click Insert.
Insert a picture when designing a form
- In design mode, place your insertion point where you want to insert the picture.
- On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click From File.
- In the Insert Picture dialog box, select the picture you want to insert, and then click Insert.
- In design mode, place your insertion point where you want to insert the picture.
- On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click From File.
- In the Insert Picture dialog box, select the picture you want to insert.
- Click the arrow to the right of the Insert button, and then click Link to File.
Note When linking to files, the following file types are allowed: Joint Photographic Experts (.jpg), Graphics Interchange Formats (.gif), and Portable Network Graphics (.png).
- In design mode, place your insertion point where you want to insert the picture control.
- If the Controls task pane is not visible, click More Controls on the Insert menu.
- Under Insert controls in the Controls task pane, click Picture.
- In the Insert Picture Control dialog box, select the options you want.
Note By default, a picture control with placeholder text is inserted into the form. If you want to specify a default picture to appear in the form instead of placeholder text, right-click the picture control, and then click Picture Properties on the shortcut menu. Under Binding on the Data tab, in the Picture Properties dialog box, select Specify default picture, click Browse, and then in the Insert Picture dialog box, choose the picture you want.