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I want to embed a picture from the web in an excel spreadsheet.

I want to embed the picture by url, in the same manner that pictures are embedded in an html page. I don't want to download the picture and insert it as a regular picture.

And I want the picture to be displayed (if I am online, of course), not just the url.

Can this be done? If so how?

Preferably in excel, but OO calc would be ok to

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Just in case this ever gets you strange errors, then it's good to know that Office might use a browser ("User Agent") known as "Microsoft Office Existence Discovery" before even trying to fetch the image. That User Agent might be seen as a search robot, and hence on some web sites might have different access rights than the IE component that is used to actually fetch the image... A little more info at superuser.com/questions/41935/… – Arjan Oct 8 '09 at 12:50
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In Excel, go to Insert > Picture > From file... and type the URL of the picture you want to insert. I don't know if the picture updates itself since I've never tried it.

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I believe that will just read the picture from the web. – harrymc Oct 8 '09 at 12:34
Yes, It does. It works – TuxGeek Oct 8 '09 at 12:39
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I think the solution is to write a VBA macro that will retrieve the image and embed it into the worksheet.

I think that's the only way for this image to be automatically refreshed.

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