includepicture non-aspect ratio

[Brian Smither]

Word 2003 and I've got an image field (includepicture) inside a table cell.
(I've finally got the table cell to stay a fixed size!) But when I exit
from editing the field, the graphic scales maintining the aspect ratio.
Since these fields are going to be decided on a mailmerge IF/THEN, I
require that the image scale non-proportionally (not maintain aspect
ratio). I can't go through the resultant document and manually correct the
size to fit the table cell.

Can I create a custom size of this graphic for each distinct table cell
geometry? Sure. But I don't want to.

 

[macropod]

Hi Brian,

See;
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_graphics.htm

Cheers

 

[Brian Smither]

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

Thank you for the response, it answered questions that might have followed.
However, it diod not answer my specific scenario - the image gets resized
to the (exact) geometry of the table cell - which means NOT maintaining the
image's aspect ratio.

(Just to keep this project moving, I resized all my graphics to the
geometry I needed them in _for this project_, but I can't do that for every
project, and I know this is going to come back to bite me later, somehow.)

 

[Brian Smither]

See;
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_graphics.htm

Nice tutorial, but my follow on questions are:

"Change the document type from Mailing Labels to Letters."

Why? Sure, it kills the propagation tool, but what's the point behind that?
What other point is being made by doing this step? If we're not going to
propagate anything else, why worry about the type of document we're
creating?

"Finally merge to a new document, select that document then update the
fields."

So what's the explanation of what's going on here? Why do the pictures
resolve in this _apparent_ erroneous way before merging to a new document?
Why does the merged document need updating? Didn't the merge complete to
100% resolved? Is there an implication that the multi-step (nested) field
construct only completes one level at a time?

If so, what if there are two-deep-nested If..Then..Else's tucked inside a
INCLUDEPICTURE? Will I have to merge yet again and update whatever fields
there may be in that second merged document?

 

[macropod]

Brian,

I suggest you ask the article's author. There's a link on the web site's home page.

Cheers