Search MS Word for Exact Match

Question

I've got a script that opens an MS Word document, then searches through a directory for each image file (.jpg), then does a find and replace using the filename as the search string, and inserts the image in place of the text it finds. My problem is that
it's not doing an exact match. This means for example that if it looks for image1.jpg and that text exists in the word document inserts the image in it's place (the text being a placeholder). But if mimimage1.jpg was in place before it then it would insert
the .jpg there - not doing an exact match.
Here's the code I've got so far:
# Get variables from XML file
$MyDir = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
# Get settings from variables.xml.
[xml]$settings = get-content "$MyDir\variables-test.xml"
# Assign the settings to local variables.
$SMTP = $settings.Settings.Setting.SMTP
$port = $settings.Settings.Setting.port
$from = $settings.Settings.Setting.EmailFrom
$to = $settings.Settings.Setting.EmailTo
$subject = $settings.Settings.Setting.Subject
$body = $settings.Settings.Setting.Body
$savepath = $settings.Settings.Setting.SavePath
$docfile = $settings.Settings.Setting.WordDoc
$XMLpath = "$MyDir\variables.xml"
[String[]]$strXML=@()
[xml]$xml = get-content $XMLpath
$parse_results = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
add-type -AssemblyName "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word"
$wdunits = "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.wdunits" -as [type]
$application = New-Object -comobject word.application
$application.visible = $false
$document = $application.documents.open($docfile)
set-variable -name wdGoToLine -value 3 -option constant
set-variable -name wdGoToAbsolute -value 1 -option constant
# Create new directory
$date = (Get-Date -format "dd-MM-yyyy")
$newdir = $savepath + "archive" + "-" + $date
New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $newdir
# Search Word document for filename and insert image
foreach($file in Get-ChildItem $savepath -Filter *.jpg)
if ($application.Selection.Find.Text = $file)
if ($application.Selection.Find.Execute())
$insertfile = $savepath + $file
$objSelection = $application.selection
$objShape = $objSelection.InlineShapes.AddPicture($insertfile)
$gotoline = $objSelection.GoTo($wdGoToLine, $wdGoToAbsolute,1)
# Move spreadsheets and images to archive location and cleanup after dfm2xls.ps1 before ending script
foreach($movexlsx in Get-ChildItem $savepath -Filter *.xlsx)
$xlpath = $savepath + $movexlsx
Move-Item $xlpath $newdir
foreach($movejpg in Get-ChildItem $savepath -Filter *.jpg)
$imgpath = $savepath + $movejpg
Move-Item $imgpath $newdir
# Save document then close application
$newsave = $savepath + $date + "-report.docx"
$document.SaveAs([ref]$newsave)
$document.Close()
$application.quit()
At the moment it doesn't do an exact match but I've tried using:
$MatchWholeWord = $True
$MatchCase = $False
and then
$application.Selection.Find.Execute($MatchWholeWord, $MatchCase)
But that stopped it from finding any matches. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi AJ Mellor,
If you want to replace the words of the .jpg file's name with the picture in word file, this script should be helpful for you to modify your script:
Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Read Words in a Text File and Make Those Same Word Italic in a Word Document?
Insert pictures in a folder into a Word document (PowerShell)
In addition, to get the words of the file name instead of the full path name, please refer to the script below:
$files = Get-ChildItem $savepath -Filter *.jpg
$words = $files.basename
foreach($word in $words){
I hope this helps.