Question

I have a word doc that I have been writing some VBA for, and in it I use this a lot:

LoadPicture(ThisDocument.Path & "image_name")

However, for this to work I’ve needed users to have an “Images” folder in the same directory, which is very inconvenient.

Is there a better way to include resources in a VBA project?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Why not check if the folder exists on document open and create the folder if it does not?

Private Sub Document_Open()
    Dim imagesFolder As String

    imagesFolder = ThisDocument.Path & "\images\"
    If Len(Dir(imagesFolder, vbDirectory)) = 0 Then MkDir imagesFolder

End Sub