You have to keep a track of that separately. There’s no way to know where a particular link is used in the document. The biggest problem with the ‘Edit Links to Files’ dialog is the lack of association with the document itself. This command can be reversed – go back to the document and choose Undo (Ctrl + Z) then return to the ‘Edit Links to Files’ dialog. This is the ‘Insert and Link’ option.īreak Link: removes the link to the external image and keeps the current image saved in the document. Save Picture in document: keep a copy of the image saved in the document.
Update: is the link updated/refreshed from the source automatically or only on request (i.e. Type: the type of link, for our purposes it’ll always be ‘Picture’. It would be useful to select the entire link to use it in Explorer or a browser. Unfortunately, the link text isn’t selectable. Item in File: It’s hard to see the link in the list but select a row and it appears in the area below the list. That button opens at the default folder, not the location of the current source file. Click on ‘Change Source’ to select another file. Source File: the link to the source file. That makes it difficult to navigate a long list of links. The list of sources doesn’t have the usual column width handles nor is it sortable. We’ll note some of the problems with this dialog box so you don’t find out the hard way. It seems no developers at Microsoft have looked at this dialog in many, many years. It’s really hard to know where to start in listing the limitations of this dialog box. The command you want is ‘Edit Links to Files’ and looks like this: There is a way to find out but it’s not simple and really buried in Office. Right-clicking on an image gives no clues, let alone a mention of the link (if any) to an image. How can you tell if an image has been inserted into the document or linked? Insert and Link adds a link to the original image with an embedded copy in the document as well. Link displays the current external picture within the document. Insert adds a copy of the image into the document We’ve already talked about the three options available for documents Insert, ‘Link to File’ and ‘Insert and Link’. Here’s more on the picture insertion options in Office documents and Outlook emails.