Bing Maps in ESRI for Office

Question

I posted this in the office thread but nobody responded. So I'll try here.

I haven't used the office add-in much the last month or so. Last week, upon creating new map slides for  a presentation, I notice that all of our maps that were  created with the Bing Maps aerial background now only show the gray canvas and  no imagery.

When I open all these web maps in my browser in the map viewer, the bing  maps imagery shows up fine. But when I add the web map as a dynamic map  in powerpoint, the imagery disappears.

I thought as part of the Bing Maps transition, all maps with Bing basemaps were supposed to be left alone?

So even though a web map with Bing imagery opens fine on the web, it won't open as part of the ESRI for Office dynamic map.
Why would this be?

Anonymous User · Answer

Hi nfazer,

The use of Bing Maps basemaps in ESRI Maps for Office requires a Bing Maps account and key. Please refer to the link below for more information :

Add a Bing basemap 
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/esri-maps-office/index.html#//02930000001r000000

yeah I already have a bing key I didn't know it was needed for this feature. Perhaps ESRI should send out an email reminder to subscription users telling them this. I didn't even think to try this because I was not aware of anyplace to input the key until seeing that help topic.

Anonymous User · Answer

Hi nfazer,

The use of Bing Maps basemaps in ESRI Maps for Office requires a Bing Maps account and key. Please refer to the link below for more information :

Add a Bing basemap 
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/esri-maps-office/index.html#//02930000001r000000