Word 2010--Finding Picture Names

[W. eWatson]

Suppose I have a file named anyfile.jpg, and I insert it into a Word
doc. How do I find the name of the file if I need it somewhere else?
Right now I'm in that situation. I cannot find the file in Word, so that
I can find what folder it's in outside of Word.

 

[choro]

Suppose I have a file named anyfile.jpg, and I insert it into a Word
doc. How do I find the name of the file if I need it somewhere else?
Right now I'm in that situation. I cannot find the file in Word, so that
I can find what folder it's in outside of Word.

If I knew the answer to this one I'd be able to find the beautiful
redhead I had a one night stand with last summer in the Big Apple whose
name I can't recall. ;-)
-- choro
*****

 

[Bob Henson]

Suppose I have a file named anyfile.jpg, and I insert it into a Word
doc. How do I find the name of the file if I need it somewhere else?
Right now I'm in that situation. I cannot find the file in Word, so that
I can find what folder it's in outside of Word.

You mean "anyfile.jpg" is somewhere on your hard drive and you can't
find it?

Click the Start button, type "anyfile.jpg" (no speech marks) in the box
saying "Search programs and files", and it will pop up for you.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK


Gynaecologist - a man who can redecorate his hallway through the letterbox.

 

[Paul]

Suppose I have a file named anyfile.jpg, and I insert it into a Word
doc. How do I find the name of the file if I need it somewhere else?
Right now I'm in that situation. I cannot find the file in Word, so that
I can find what folder it's in outside of Word.

Either there's a reference to it inside the file, or there isn't.
A search with a hex editor (or any other forensic tool you happen
to have), should tell you whether the filename is there or not.

Images can either be "copied into" a file, or the file can contain
a "link" to the image stored elsewhere on the computer. If an image
is copied into a document, there is no longer a need to keep filename
information about it. Doing so would be purely optional. And that
could be why there is no filename present inside your document right
now - the image is already a copy.

And I don't know of a quick way to do a "content search" on your
hard drive to find the image. There are tools that can make
thumbnail views of the images on your hard drive.
But I wasn't able to find a tool immediately, that would
compute the correlation between a sample image (copied out
of the document), and all the other images on your hard drive.
I presume such a thing exists, but I don't know good search terms
to find it.

Paul

 

[sticks]

Either there's a reference to it inside the file, or there isn't.
A search with a hex editor (or any other forensic tool you happen
to have), should tell you whether the filename is there or not.

Open the MS script editor (Alt+Shift+F11) within Word

Images can either be "copied into" a file, or the file can contain
a "link" to the image stored elsewhere on the computer. If an image
is copied into a document, there is no longer a need to keep filename
information about it. Doing so would be purely optional. And that
could be why there is no filename present inside your document right
now - the image is already a copy.

If inserted, the image will be renamed to something like image001.jpg.
Right after the reference to the new number and name, the original will
be listed with something like o:title="anything"/
This will be the original file without the extension.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Suppose I have a file named anyfile.jpg, and I insert it into a Word
doc. How do I find the name of the file if I need it somewhere else?
Right now I'm in that situation. I cannot find the file in Word, so
that I can find what folder it's in outside of Word.

Either there's a reference to it inside the file, or there isn't.
A search with a hex editor (or any other forensic tool you happen
to have), should tell you whether the filename is there or not.

Images can either be "copied into" a file, or the file can contain
a "link" to the image stored elsewhere on the computer. If an image
is copied into a document, there is no longer a need to keep filename
information about it. Doing so would be purely optional. And that
could be why there is no filename present inside your document right
now - the image is already a copy.[/QUOTE]

According to sticks's post in this thread, W2010 _does_ have a way of
finding out.

And I don't know of a quick way to do a "content search" on your
hard drive to find the image. There are tools that can make
thumbnail views of the images on your hard drive.
But I wasn't able to find a tool immediately, that would
compute the correlation between a sample image (copied out
of the document), and all the other images on your hard drive.
I presume such a thing exists, but I don't know good search terms
to find it.

Paul

Well, there are several duplicate image finders; I like Dup Detector
from http://www.prismaticsoftware.com/ - it can compare images of
different sizes, and you can set the percentage match. Can't be any
good, though - it's free, only 1.1M, and runs on Windows 7, Vista, XP,
NT4, 2K, ME, 95-98, and nothing like that can be any good, can it (-:

 

[W. eWatson]

Open the MS script editor (Alt+Shift+F11) within Word


If inserted, the image will be renamed to something like image001.jpg.
Right after the reference to the new number and name, the original will
be listed with something like o:title="anything"/
This will be the original file without the extension.

Alt-Shift-F11 did nothing. I used it with the cursor amongst text and on
the picture.

 

[W. eWatson]

According to sticks's post in this thread, W2010 _does_ have a way of
finding out.

Well, there are several duplicate image finders; I like Dup Detector
from http://www.prismaticsoftware.com/ - it can compare images of
different sizes, and you can set the percentage match. Can't be any
good, though - it's free, only 1.1M, and runs on Windows 7, Vista, XP,
NT4, 2K, ME, 95-98, and nothing like that can be any good, can it (-:

Years ago, I found a tool of some sort to find picture sizes in the doc.
I think I had created a doc that was unnecessarily large because I had
so many large pics in it. As I vaguely recall, it possibly listed the
file names that were in folders where I got them from.

 

[W. eWatson]

Let's see if I can clarify this. Suppose I write a doc file with
pictures in it. Years or months later I've forgotten the names of the
files. I want to go to the doc and find out the names of the files I
used. If I can find the names, then I can search my PC to find them.

In my case, the pictures were reduced in size when I placed them in the
doc. Hopefully, I can find the full sized files on my PC.

 

[sticks]

Alt-Shift-F11 did nothing. I used it with the cursor amongst text and on
the picture.

Sorry, they stopped using it in version 2003 that I have. You'll find
your answer here. You basically have to add the "web page preview"
button to your ribbon.
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/26119.aspx

 

[Bob Henson]

Let's see if I can clarify this. Suppose I write a doc file with
pictures in it. Years or months later I've forgotten the names of the
files. I want to go to the doc and find out the names of the files I
used. If I can find the names, then I can search my PC to find them.

In my case, the pictures were reduced in size when I placed them in the
doc. Hopefully, I can find the full sized files on my PC.

Type in *.jpg - there probably aren't that many to go through?
--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK


Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise', I wash my mouth out with
chocolate.

 

[VanguardLH]

Open the MS script editor (Alt+Shift+F11) within Word


If inserted, the image will be renamed to something like image001.jpg.
Right after the reference to the new number and name, the original will
be listed with something like o:title="anything"/
This will be the original file without the extension.

What I saw (in Word 2003) in a "Testing image.doc" file when opening the
script editor was:

<v:imagedata src="Testing%20image_files/image001.jpg" o:title="Iceberg"/>

The original filename that got inserted into the .doc file was called
Iceberg.jpg. Of course, with the extension stripped off, you won't know
later if it was a .jpg, .bmp, .png, or other image filetype. Obviously
if you rename, delete, or move the external file it will have no effect
on the content of the .doc file. There's no physical linkage between
the image that is encoded within the .doc file and the source file for
the image.

 

[W. eWatson]

Type in *.jpg - there probably aren't that many to go through?

Not a bad idea, but there are 19,072. However, I know the year, so
restricting the period I took it could be helpful.

Ha. The very first one listed of 852 was the file. I took a six month
period. Even found others similar to it I had taken.