As a small UA-cam who has a channel that also do educational videos i benefit a lot from bigger UA-camrs thank you. Wishing to grow bigger as well. Thank you for great information.
This is mind-blowing to me. I find myself wondering how it works behind the scenes. I worked as a database programmer in the 1990s and early 2000s, first with Paradox, then Microsoft Access and eventually JSPs and Java Servlets with a SQL back end. I remember when Borland (Paradox) and Microsoft (Access) added binary large object (BLOb) fields to tables in their products. That was pretty neat, but BLOb fields weren't searchable. We also didn't tend to use them a whole lot, because the cost in terms of storage, disk access time, processing power and network bandwidth, if the database was stored on a server, was enormous. The database programmer also had to take into account that the application might have to run on a computer that wasn't capable of making use of whatever was stored in the BLOb field. That was both because a lot of computers in use at the time lacked the graphics hardware to display more than small GIFs, and because the BLOb field wasn't limited to pictures. Those aren't things we have to think so much about today, but I do have to wonder what happens to the workbook file size as you start adding images, and what happens to the search if the user loads up the column with full-size JPEGs.
@@LeilaGharani Maybe it works because it is using a binary checksum of the image already in the workbook versus running some sort of image recognition on the machine or cloud? Perhaps test it by reducing the resolution of the original pic and saving it as a different filename and then inserting it into the lookup field?
I have tried this on one of my workings and it worked. Thanks it's very cool. I'm truly impressed with its functionality; it's a remarkable solution. Thank you so much for sharing this amazing technique!
Just the other day I found a fairly old how-to article (somewhere on the internet) on how to do this the "old school" way, using INDEX(MATCH() for a named range and such. This is so much easier
But there are no "Place in cell" option in Excel. Only available "Insert picture from this device", "Stock images" & "Online pictures". How to add "Place in Cell" option?
Wow, mind blowing. This one will change my reporting and a lot of grief working within MS Word. I am going to change all my templates from word over to excel now!
My dear Leila, I must tell you this. You are Amaisyng Teacher. Evrytime wen I forgot to use the $ sign in the Index/Match formula, after #NA sowing, your Beautiful Face pops up in my mind And the sentence uses F4 for Index Match. It is incredible phenomena in human brain, how it memorises some things. I must say, I am very happy wen your face pops up in the stressful environment.
I am all excited to give it a try. Only to find out this feature is not available yet for my Microsoft 365😢. Hope it will be available for everyone. Can't wait! It is really cool feature, can be very useful for my work.
Wow, this is fantastic. At 4 mins you mention looking up data by photo which is a game changer for my business. My question is, what if the photo does not completely match will it find the closes one that matches? I scan book covers to show condition, in my database there would be slight variance from photo to photo. One image is one book scan and if I scan a new image of a different book, but same title. Would it find similar book data from the first scan? I am dealing with 100's of thousands of lines. Thanks for the great video.
I used GPT to create a VBA solution for a colleague just a few weeks ago. He analyzes images of license plates against the text value produced from OCR. We had unique file paths to the images listed in the worksheet. The VBA code inserted the image next to the path. The OCR text values were there too for comparison. I wonder if this functionality you’re sharing would allow my solution to be done without VBA.
Great video, thank you. The only niggle i have is, if you copy and paste a picture of a table with the images in , the resolution of the image is awful . I hope Microsoft sort it soon!
Thanks for making video regarding the Insert Image in Cell feature. It is currently only available in Microsoft 365 online. I have Excel on Macbook. Waiting for this feature on the macbook.
The best Excel Video channel ever. I have a question about inserted images. Every time I double click on the cell that contains the image the text shows up and the picture disappears. It's a big drawback because if someone clicks on the picture by mistake you lose your information. Any Idea how to deal with this problem?
I truly appreciate the value of this amazing feature, and I believe it would be incredibly beneficial for my projects. However, I regret to inform you that I currently lack access to this excellent capability.
Great that this will finally be possible as it already has been in google sheets for ages. Question - If I develop a spreadsheet using this and then pass it onto someone else who doesn't have the beta functionality available...will it still work for them?
I'm using Microsoft365 Business and all office updates have been done. But I can not see "Insert into cell" in pictures sub-menu. Is this new property specific to some other 365 versions or hasn't it issued to all users yet?
You are the Best!!! Thanks for sharing. I have two questions please. 1. What impact on the size of file, any performance issues may occurs due to adding several pictures? 2. I tried to add pictures from SharePoint using IMAGE formula, but no luck. Is it the same with this new feature? Once Again Thank you Leila for the awesome video! .
Have you tried if using the image for lookup is based on the original file that you inserted? Hard to believe it actually searches by the actual image.... so, wondering what kind of info it is looking for, or what happens if you add 2 different images but with the same name....
I have to upgrade my Excel to get this new tool. However, I was curious what would happen if you sorted the table using the pictures. Also what does the pull-down filter look like?
Well Leila, MS are either slowing the release or only allowing it for particular versions as my copy of Excel (Microsoft® Excel® for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2305 Build 16.0.16501.20074) 64-bit ) does not have this feature. Hopefully, it will appear soon.
That's great, like you said in beta right now so I don't have access. I'm curious can you use a data variation on the images to get a dropdown list of images. You could then scroll through the list of images, pick the one you want and get the name.
The image search works when using a photo copied from the table it has been inserted into. Does it work if you copied in the same image directly from your laptop? Is it using image metadata or excel cell metadata (or whatever, experts please correct) 🤔
Will this be able to insert the image in a mail merge? We have 200 locations, each needs a unique printed page with a series of QR codes to link to various social media platforms. We've been making them manually. It is... unpleasant.
This is really interesting and most useful, however the option of "Place in cell" not showing in my excel office 365 version. Do I need to do some steps to activate. Please suggest.
Hi Leila, I appreciate your videos & it's very helpful! I'm in the 365 insider program & running Excel Version 2309 Build 16.0.16827.20014 & I still don't see this place in cell function, any ideas?
Grab the file I used in the video from here 👉 pages.xelplus.com/image-in-cell-file
I have been waiting for this feature for nearly 10 years. Thank you!
As a small UA-cam who has a channel that also do educational videos i benefit a lot from bigger UA-camrs thank you. Wishing to grow bigger as well. Thank you for great information.
This is mind-blowing to me. I find myself wondering how it works behind the scenes. I worked as a database programmer in the 1990s and early 2000s, first with Paradox, then Microsoft Access and eventually JSPs and Java Servlets with a SQL back end. I remember when Borland (Paradox) and Microsoft (Access) added binary large object (BLOb) fields to tables in their products. That was pretty neat, but BLOb fields weren't searchable. We also didn't tend to use them a whole lot, because the cost in terms of storage, disk access time, processing power and network bandwidth, if the database was stored on a server, was enormous. The database programmer also had to take into account that the application might have to run on a computer that wasn't capable of making use of whatever was stored in the BLOb field. That was both because a lot of computers in use at the time lacked the graphics hardware to display more than small GIFs, and because the BLOb field wasn't limited to pictures. Those aren't things we have to think so much about today, but I do have to wonder what happens to the workbook file size as you start adding images, and what happens to the search if the user loads up the column with full-size JPEGs.
File size will definitely be an issue if loaded with high-res pictures.
@@LeilaGharani Maybe it works because it is using a binary checksum of the image already in the workbook versus running some sort of image recognition on the machine or cloud? Perhaps test it by reducing the resolution of the original pic and saving it as a different filename and then inserting it into the lookup field?
or it can possibly be the image name
I’m getting an accounting position soon and I’ve been learning everyday from you. You are my education. My school. My hero 😊
I have tried this on one of my workings and it worked. Thanks it's very cool. I'm truly impressed with its functionality; it's a remarkable solution. Thank you so much for sharing this amazing technique!
Great to hear!
Exactly what I needed today! Thank you soooo much!
Just the other day I found a fairly old how-to article (somewhere on the internet) on how to do this the "old school" way, using INDEX(MATCH() for a named range and such. This is so much easier
That's what I have been doing. It's a pain
This is awesome! What a great new function!
It really is!
You're an amazing resource! I'm learning so much from you, You're my Guru Dronacharya.
Wow, thank you!
But there are no "Place in cell" option in Excel. Only available "Insert picture from this device", "Stock images" & "Online pictures". How to add "Place in Cell" option?
How do we get it?
nah
@@Fit_By_Gods_Grace_Alone Excel 365
Wow, mind blowing. This one will change my reporting and a lot of grief working within MS Word. I am going to change all my templates from word over to excel now!
My dear Leila, I must tell you this.
You are Amaisyng Teacher.
Evrytime wen I forgot to use the $ sign in the Index/Match formula, after #NA sowing, your Beautiful Face pops up in my mind And the sentence uses F4 for Index Match.
It is incredible phenomena in human brain, how it memorises some things.
I must say, I am very happy wen your face pops up in the stressful environment.
Glad to be of service 😁
Your videos are helpful
This is brilliant. Next level would be if a mail merge from Excel to word could pick up images as fields. Can you test this out please?
I am all excited to give it a try. Only to find out this feature is not available yet for my Microsoft 365😢. Hope it will be available for everyone. Can't wait! It is really cool feature, can be very useful for my work.
excellent! so much easier than the indirect function in a image !! thank you for the video
Wow, this is fantastic. At 4 mins you mention looking up data by photo which is a game changer for my business. My question is, what if the photo does not completely match will it find the closes one that matches? I scan book covers to show condition, in my database there would be slight variance from photo to photo. One image is one book scan and if I scan a new image of a different book, but same title. Would it find similar book data from the first scan? I am dealing with 100's of thousands of lines. Thanks for the great video.
I'm looking for the same information, did you happen to find something like that. Kinda like a personal google lens?
I love these videos where you blow our mind with new functions
Thank you Leila. I use the IMAGE function in Excel right now.
Thank you this is great!!!! I was able to use Xlookup to display just the picture!!! amazing Thank you again.
Great to hear!
Thaks for updating us with this new feature in advance. This'll be very useful at my job when released.
Our pleasure!
props for reminding everyone that google sheets had this ages ago by naming your photos folder google sheets tutorials.
It’s good to see IMAGE evolving. I’d still like to be able to concatenate images in the same cell.
Agreed. There is definitely room for improvement.
Wow, this is exactly what I need, I can't wait for it to be come out of Beta.
Me too :)
I slowly start to like excel XD
Thank you so much!
A big thumbs up to you for sharing such valuable information for free...💐💐💐
I used GPT to create a VBA solution for a colleague just a few weeks ago. He analyzes images of license plates against the text value produced from OCR. We had unique file paths to the images listed in the worksheet. The VBA code inserted the image next to the path. The OCR text values were there too for comparison.
I wonder if this functionality you’re sharing would allow my solution to be done without VBA.
Great video, thank you. The only niggle i have is, if you copy and paste a picture of a table with the images in , the resolution of the image is awful . I hope Microsoft sort it soon!
Thanks for making video regarding the Insert Image in Cell feature. It is currently only available in Microsoft 365 online. I have Excel on Macbook. Waiting for this feature on the macbook.
For desktop you will have to join Office Insider. Let's hope it rolls out soon.
Wow that is amazong, imagine if it could also surprise us working in drop down lists
Hi Leila, thanks a lot for this great video. All Functions worked in the german version of excel as well.
The best Excel Video channel ever. I have a question about inserted images. Every time I double click on the cell that contains the image the text shows up and the picture disappears. It's a big drawback because if someone clicks on the picture by mistake you lose your information. Any Idea how to deal with this problem?
This is brilliant !
This is super useful ... just exatly what i needed thanks a million
Interesting new feature, especially the picture lookup part
This is amazing and perfect for an upcoming project I have, I was gonna create a "get picture" function but it would be a lot of work
That's very nice i got new new ideas from you madam you are so great
I truly appreciate the value of this amazing feature, and I believe it would be incredibly beneficial for my projects. However, I regret to inform you that I currently lack access to this excellent capability.
Sadly I do not have this function. Great video!
@LeilaGharani any chance you could tell us which version of MS EXCEL has this fantastic new feature? Thank you!
How awesome is this..
Thanks for bonus tip.
Wonderful LG. Its really help me.
At last this is available!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing what you learn.
Great that this will finally be possible as it already has been in google sheets for ages.
Question - If I develop a spreadsheet using this and then pass it onto someone else who doesn't have the beta functionality available...will it still work for them?
Perfect all of us love your videos
This tutorial is cool, Thank you
Glad you liked it!
I'm using Microsoft365 Business and all office updates have been done. But I can not see "Insert into cell" in pictures sub-menu. Is this new property specific to some other 365 versions or hasn't it issued to all users yet?
Oopss, sorry. I realized that I missed the banner "Currently in Beta" at the beginning of the video.
Super Moon this week!🌝
You are the Best!!! Thanks for sharing. I have two questions please.
1. What impact on the size of file, any performance issues may occurs due to adding several pictures?
2. I tried to add pictures from SharePoint using IMAGE formula, but no luck. Is it the same with this new feature?
Once Again Thank you Leila for the awesome video! .
i love Vlookup.
So nice of u ma'am for sharing
Kindly give idea on importing data from one excel sheet to another excel sheet with Command
Such a cool new feature. Thanks Leila!
It really is. Hope it will be rolled out soon.
I thought it was already released, need this ASAP, already have my pics in a folder
Wow that’s pretty cool 😎
Thanks Leila
Hi Leila,
Thank you for sharing very useful knowledge,
Warm Regards,
gab
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great one, thank you LG for sharing
Thanks for watching.
Nice feature... I think excel is hashing the picture and uses that as a lookup value.
Thanks for sharing.
This is awesome!! Thanks
Miss you are my leader.
Have you tried if using the image for lookup is based on the original file that you inserted? Hard to believe it actually searches by the actual image.... so, wondering what kind of info it is looking for, or what happens if you add 2 different images but with the same name....
I have to upgrade my Excel to get this new tool. However, I was curious what would happen if you sorted the table using the pictures. Also what does the pull-down filter look like?
Pretty cool! Cheers!
Nice!! Is there a way to feed in a valid image URL and get the image in cell?
Hi. Thanks gorgeous the video. When i import the pictures the rotate 90 degrees to landscape, is there a way to fix this?
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing 👍.
I would love this "insert in cell" but for checkboxes, like you have in Google Sheets.
thanks😄
Well Leila, MS are either slowing the release or only allowing it for particular versions as my copy of Excel (Microsoft® Excel® for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2305 Build 16.0.16501.20074) 64-bit ) does not have this feature. Hopefully, it will appear soon.
Would be great if we could have Pictures in a dropdown list.
This is AMAZING
this is so cool 😎 😎
Thank You .....really nice one
Hey Leila, how do I load picure from Cell witch picture inside, to Userform.Image? Tnx
Thanks for the video.
I hope this means that the picture can be used to mail merge into MS Word 😊
Does the look up work if its a different picture of the same person 😅. P.S really appreciate your content. 🙏
Just wooow. thank you Leila
Welcome!
That's great, like you said in beta right now so I don't have access. I'm curious can you use a data variation on the images to get a dropdown list of images. You could then scroll through the list of images, pick the one you want and get the name.
The image search works when using a photo copied from the table it has been inserted into. Does it work if you copied in the same image directly from your laptop? Is it using image metadata or excel cell metadata (or whatever, experts please correct) 🤔
Excellent
But I want to know if it's possible to make droplist from the pictures
Thanks so much
Will this be able to insert the image in a mail merge?
We have 200 locations, each needs a unique printed page with a series of QR codes to link to various social media platforms. We've been making them manually. It is... unpleasant.
Hi Leila. Is it possible to do PDF files instead of pictures? Would be very helpful in my work. Thanks
Scauts of model agencies are gonna love this....
When is this available?
Which version of Excel support this new function?
When will it get available in Office 365?
Hello. Do You have a video before regarding automated customer number? Thank You
This feature is absolutely cool. Can't wait to get it on my 365. Will it arrive automatically or should I actively download when it is in production?
You'll get it automatically with an update.
@@LeilaGharani thank you for your response!
Amazing!!
Mind blowing ❤
Excellent💯💯💯
This is really interesting and most useful, however the option of "Place in cell" not showing in my excel office 365 version. Do I need to do some steps to activate. Please suggest.
Should I update excel for this feature??
Kindly share how to do Digital signature on New PDF Adobe reader using certificate
Wild!
Hi Leila, I appreciate your videos & it's very helpful! I'm in the 365 insider program & running Excel Version 2309 Build 16.0.16827.20014 & I still don't see this place in cell function, any ideas?
Do you lnow if this will be on the sharepoint version of Excel?
Awesome video
Very cool!