Changing default view of a pane

[TimBush]

How do I change the default view for the insert picture pane from large icons to preview? I do a lot of picture inserts and want the "Insert Picture" pane view to always be preview.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The default in recent versions is Thumbnails, from which I gather you must
have an older version of Word or Windows?

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How do I change the default view for the insert picture pane from large

icons to preview? I do a lot of picture inserts and want the "Insert
Picture" pane view to always be preview.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Tim,

This is one of the disasters in Word2002. It is fixed in
Word2003. If you stick with Word2002 you can get some
sucess with the following macro:

Sub InsertPicture()
'
' InsertPicture Macro by Bob Buckland ?
' Inserts a picture from a graphics file
' Sets the View to Pre(v)iew with SendKeys
' View choices [change last Sendkey Letter]
' D - (D)etails view
' G - Lar(g)e Icon view
' L - (L)ist view
' M - S(m)all Icon view
' R - P(r)operties View
' V - Pre(v)iew View

SendKeys ("%L{LEFT}V")
Dialogs(wdDialogInsertPicture).Show

End Sub

For help installing macros, see:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

-----Original Message-----
How do I change the default view for the insert picture

pane from large icons to preview? I do a lot of picture
inserts and want the "Insert Picture" pane view to always
be preview.

 

[TimBush]

Greg,

Thanks! That macro works great!