How to insert a picture into Excel sheet from Access VBA?

[Keith Faulkner]

I am trying to add a logo from a bitmap file to an Excel report which is created using MS Access 2010.
This code works, but it inserts the bitmap as a linked file. So when I view the excel file on another workstation which does not have the bitmap, the logo is shown with the message "The Linked Image cannot be displayed"

 Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlBook As Excel.Workbook
Dim xlSheet As Excel.Worksheet
Dim PicLocation As String
Dim myPict As Excel.Picture


 Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set xlBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Add
xlBook.Application.Visible = True

Set xlSheet = xlBook.Worksheets.Add

xlSheet.Name = "Invoices Totals"


xlSheet.Activate

         PicLocation = "C:\foldername\picture1.bmp"
            If Dir(PicLocation) <> "" Then
                With xlSheet.Range("L1")
                    Set myPict = .Parent.Pictures.Insert(PicLocation)
                    myPict.Top = .Top
                    myPict.Left = .Left
                    myPict.Placement = xlMoveAndSize
                    
                End With
            End If

I have also tried to import the bimtap which is stored in table "Copyright" in field "logo" using

PicLocation = DLookup("logo", "copyright")

I use this succesfully to place logos on all PDF reports that are created but when I try to use this to export to Excel it fails with
"Unable to get the Insert property of the picture class"

Any suggestions on how to make this an embedded image on the Excel file would be gratefully recieved, by whichever method.

Regards

Keith

[ADezii]

You can experiment with the following code, but you are on your own:

'False      Link to File
'True       Save with Document
'All below values are in Points
'Left       100
'Top        100
'Width       70
'Height      70
xlSheet.Shapes.AddPicture PicLocation, False, True, 100, 100, 70, 70

[Keith Faulkner]

That did the trick - many thanks

Keith

[ADezii]

Glad it worked out for you, wasn't really sure whether or not that it would.