Hi Miguel and John,

Thank you very much for having take time to answer me.

Miguel, I indeed tried your suggestion but the security prompts are really a "no go" in my organization. Moreover, I fear that some proxy or firewall would block my attempts to deploy a Word document with a macro.

I found on the web that by surrounding the merge field (containing the path to the picture) with {IF TRUE }, the update would be automatic. The field becomes like that : {INCLUDEPICTURE "{IF TRUE {MERGEFIELD picture_path}}"} .

Believe it or not but it seems to works ! I'll give it a try in my organization because it seems too simple to be true, and if it is not reliable I will try to follow John's approach. 

Thank you and Best regards,

Pierre

In addiction to what John said:

The VBA macro code looks a bit difficult (to me), to simply replicate with OLE in powerbuilder as I don't know about a lot of the types, but it should be possible.
Maybe an easier way to do this, would be to create your document using a DOTX (or DocM?) file which already contains that macro. (I think you can also add a macro dynamically to any other document, but it's been a very long time since I've done that).

Once that's done, you'd only have to run that macro using OLE from powerbuilder.

A disadvantage of using a predifined macro might be running into more security prompts when opening the docs etc.

Just an idea.

Hi, Pierre -

Disclaimer: I've never done this, but here's how I would approach the problem:

You'll need Word Object Model documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/overview/Word/object-model

The StoryRanges object is a collection, according to the documentation. So lookup the StoryRanges object:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/word.storyranges

You'll see a list of Properties and a list of Methods for the StoryRanges object. Collections always (in my limited experience) have a Count property that tells you the number of items in the collection. You can use this in a PB For-Next loop.

There is an Item method you use to obtain a desired item number from the collection. If you drill down into this method, you'll see it returns a Range object and the web page shows you the syntax. You'll assign this to another PB OLEObject.

Now look up the Range object:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/word.range

There appears to be roughly a gazillion methods and properties for the Range object, so I have no idea where you go from here, but I hope you get the idea on how to attack the problem.

Good luck and best regards, John