Deleting pictures with Excel VBA

Question

How do I delete all the pictures in an Excel 2007 worksheet? A working code example would be great.

Answer 1

The simplest way:

Activesheet.Pictures.Delete

or

Activesheet.Shapes.Delete

Depending on the type of object your picture is.

Deletes all pictures with greater efficiency then iterating (looping through) and deleting them one by one.

Answer 2

To delete all pictures or others shapes, you can iterate all of them and check the type:

Dim shape As Excel.shape

For Each shape In ActiveSheet.Shapes

    Select Case shape.Type
        Case msoPicture, msoMedia, msoShapeTypeMixed, msoOLEControlObject, msoAutoShape
            shape.Delete
        Case Else
            'Do nothing
    End Select
Next

In my case this code was usefull because my sheet was full of transparent shapes of type msoAutoShape which I thought were pictures. So, Activesheet.Pictures.Delete was not working.

You can find all shape types on this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa432678(v=office.12).aspx

Answer 3

Dim shape As Excel.shape

For Each shape In ActiveSheet.Shapes
        shape.Delete
Next