How to find all word (office) documents with pictures on them in my archive

Mah 50

Hi there,

I am wondering if there is a way to distinguish between word documents with any picture inside them and those without any picture? suppose i have 10000 word documents ... i know the picture i am looking for is on one of them but obviousely opening each and checking if there is any picture there, is very tough , so can i search for files with pictures on them and ignore the other word files on my archive ?

hope there is a way :)

thanks for showing it to me :)

LiweiTian-MSFT 19,165 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-09-25T05:44:02.8333333+00:00

Hi @Mah

Could you please tell me:

Where are your Word documents saved?
Mah 50 Reputation points

2023-10-07T03:12:04.79+00:00

Hi Liwei,

Thanks for reply, sorry for late answering . sure, the truth is i have to check all my backups so that includes all external and internal drives ... and may include thousands of word files for years, so short answer : no specific place to be mentioned. i hope it is not bad news for you to have answer to my question. thanks again for your suggestions.
Mah 50 Reputation points

2023-10-07T03:28:15.29+00:00

@ Lewei , did i answer ur question or i got what you meant all wrong ?
LiweiTian-MSFT 19,165 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-10-09T01:13:31.75+00:00

Hi @Mah

Based on our research, there is no out-of-the-box functionality that can provide you with this help, and we recommend you refer to Olaf Helper's suggestion.

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Olaf Helper 44,501 Reputation points

2023-09-25T05:55:48.44+00:00

You can write a PowerShell script for this requirements, but that means a lot of work for you; don't expect us to do it for you.

See

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/powertip-use-windows-powershell-to-open-word-document/

https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSWriteWord/1.1.14
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Mah 50 Reputation points

2023-10-07T03:18:46.92+00:00

Hi Olaf,

Thanks for your reply. I am going to check the links and sure, i like to write codes and although i am not expert but will try and of course if i come across any question regarding script writing will get back to you to get a little more help if it is ok :) .. thanks very much for your suggestion. i am just wondering why there is no such an option in all those searching softwares out there ? no one got this problem before ? Am i the first ?? :D

Mah 50 Reputation points

2023-10-07T03:32:24.83+00:00

@ Olaf , just checked .. not much there except the method of opening known word doc which in comments someone says no longer works with version 5.1 or above ... could not get a clue how to even start writing script in that regard ... :|
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