How do I embed and display text file objects? in Word General Questions    |   |  Help   Search For:     In:   Office   Word     Word General Questions     Word New Users     Word Application Errors     Word Drawing and Graphics     Word Mailmerge and Fax     Word Page Layout     Word Programming     Word Tables              dnewboldgsc 8/9/2005 1:12 PM PST   Question   I want to insert text file objects into my document and have Word display the text from the files in my document. When I insert the object now, all I see is an icon. I want to see the file content rather than the icon.     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           garfield-n-odie 8/9/2005 1:33 PM PST   Answer   Maybe use an INCLUDETEXT field instead of inserting a file object? See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP051861651033.aspx "Field codes: IncludeText field" for more information. dnewboldgsc wrote: > I want to insert text file objects into my document and have Word display the > text from the files in my document. When I insert the object now, all I see > is an icon. I want to see the file content rather than the icon.     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           CyberTaz  8/10/2005 5:48 AM PST   A couple of other thoughts: If you _do not_ want to edit the content after it's inserted, Open the file in Word (you will have to select All Files or Text Files from the 'Files of Type:' list at the bottom of the Open dialog box. Save & close the file using Save As & set the file type to Word Document. Then go to Insert>Object--From File and insert the new Word version, making sure there is no check in the box to Display as Icon. You can also use the above technique to open the file in Word simply as a Text File without saving it as a Word doc. Once opened, Edit>Select All (or Ctrl+A) and copy. Then go back to the Word doc and use Edit>Paste Special in any of the ways listed. MS Office Word Object results as indicated above, whereas the next two options in the list render the same as the process described below (one pastes 'as is', the other pastes in the current text format). If you _do_ want the inserted content to be an editable part of the doc you're inserting it into, start by placing your insertion point at the spot in the Word document where you want the incoming content to go. Then go to Insert>File and change the File Type as above and double-click the file's icon to have the content copied in. No offense to g-n-o, but I just hate to mess with fields if I don't have to. Regards |:>) "dnewboldgsc" wrote: > I want to insert text file objects into my document and have Word display the > text from the files in my document. When I insert the object now, all I see > is an icon. I want to see the file content rather than the icon.     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top         Return to Microsoft Communities   Notify me of replies