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Submitted by Vishesh on 19 July, 2011 - 16:50
The following code pastes the picture from Web to the Excel range. The two parameters required by the function are the URL of the picture and address of target Excel range. The function Test at the bottom is given as an example. To get the url of the picture right click the picture and in the properties copy the Address (URL) if you are using Internet Explorer; right click and copy image url in Google Chrome; right click and copy image location in Firefox. 
Sub GetShapeFromWeb(strShpUrl As String, rngTarget As Range)
    Dim shp As Shape
 
    With rngTarget
        With .Parent
            .Pictures.Insert strShpUrl
            Set shp = .Shapes(.Shapes.Count)
        End With
        shp.Left = .Left
        shp.Top = .Top
    End With
 
    Set shp = Nothing
End Sub
 
Sub Test()
    Call GetShapeFromWeb("http://excelexperts.com/sites/default/files/logo.jpg", Sheet1.Range("F3"))
End Sub
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A shorter code...

Submitted by Vishesh on 14 October, 2011 - 16:23.
A shorter code... 
Sub GetShapeFromWeb(strShpUrl As String, rngTarget As Range)
 
   With rngTarget.Parent
 
      .Pictures.Insert strShpUrl
 
      .Shapes(.Shapes.Count).Left = rngTarget.Left
 
      .Shapes(.Shapes.Count).Top = rngTarget.Top
 
   End With
 
End Sub
 
 
 
Sub Test()
 
    Call GetShapeFromWeb("http://excelexperts.com/sites/default/files/logo.jpg", Sheet1.Range("F3"))
 
End Sub
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Is there a way to bulk insert images ?

Submitted by Anonymous on 30 November, 2011 - 23:47.

This is great vba,but i would like to know if i can bulk insert them and allign them to a cell.

So i have an excel with many url of web images,is there a way i can bulk insert them each on every line centered with a row height of about 90 px and an image height of 80 px with aspect ratio?

So say it goes like that

COLUMN A | COLUMN B
IMAGE 1 | URL 1
IMAGE 2 | URL 2

ETC.

if this isn't possible it may also would be nice to have them inserted as comment as fill format picture!

Thanks in advance

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This is very much possible.

Submitted by Vishesh on 1 December, 2011 - 15:40.

This is very much possible. You can run a loop on the cell range where you have your images' urls. From within the loop you can call the above function with the required parameters - the image url and the target cell.

Once the shape is there in Excel you can set its dimension.

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image url auto refresh

Submitted by raju on 14 February, 2012 - 11:00.

Dear Vishesh,
your site was very helpful for me.....i would like some help form you....i do want a image url to excel with auto refresh every 10seconds. i would be placing a button for on & off to refresh new image in to excel. when its in ON it auto refresh every 10seconds.

http://excelexperts.com/copy-picture-web-excel ...link helped me a lot...but i do want autorefresh the image.

Regards,
Raju

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Is the image on the url

Submitted by Vishesh on 14 February, 2012 - 14:17.

Is the image on the url changing after sometime ? If not then whats the use of refreshing the the image.

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image url auto refresh

Submitted by raju on 14 February, 2012 - 11:00.

Dear Vishesh,
your site was very helpful for me.....i would like some help form you....i do want a image url to excel with auto refresh every 10seconds. i would be placing a button for on & off to refresh new image in to excel. when its in ON it auto refresh every 10seconds.

http://excelexperts.com/copy-picture-web-excel ...link helped me a lot...but i do want autorefresh the image.

Regards,
Raju

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image url auto refresh

Submitted by raju on 14 February, 2012 - 11:00.

Dear Vishesh,
your site was very helpful for me.....i would like some help form you....i do want a image url to excel with auto refresh every 10seconds. i would be placing a button for on & off to refresh new image in to excel. when its in ON it auto refresh every 10seconds.

http://excelexperts.com/copy-picture-web-excel ...link helped me a lot...but i do want autorefresh the image.

Regards,
Raju

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image url auto refresh

Submitted by raju on 14 February, 2012 - 11:00.

Dear Vishesh,
your site was very helpful for me.....i would like some help form you....i do want a image url to excel with auto refresh every 10seconds. i would be placing a button for on & off to refresh new image in to excel. when its in ON it auto refresh every 10seconds.

http://excelexperts.com/copy-picture-web-excel ...link helped me a lot...but i do want autorefresh the image.

Regards,
Raju

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image url auto refresh

Submitted by raju on 14 February, 2012 - 11:00.

Dear Vishesh,
your site was very helpful for me.....i would like some help form you....i do want a image url to excel with auto refresh every 10seconds. i would be placing a button for on & off to refresh new image in to excel. when its in ON it auto refresh every 10seconds.

http://excelexperts.com/copy-picture-web-excel ...link helped me a lot...but i do want autorefresh the image.

Regards,
Raju

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