macro to crop and size picture

[ksweitz]

I want to create a macro to format pictures by cropping and resizing them to
consistant values, but have had no luck.

I am using Word 2002.

All help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Word is not a photo editing tool.

 

[Harlan Grove]

Word is not a photo editing tool.

....

Insert a picture into a Word document, right click on it and choose
Properties. In one of the tabs there are properties called Crop and Resize.
If that's what the OP meant (and that's very likely the case), then the OP's
question is valid and your response irrelevant.

For the OP: use Word's macro recorder when you crop and resize a picture in
your Word document. Then modifiy the recorded code to loop through all
picture objects in the document.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

And I stick with my original response that Word is not a photo editing
program. Just because you can use a program to make it do something it is
not it's primary purpose, doesn't mean you should. I am a strong believer in
user the right tool for the job. Chances are the OP has a program on his
computer that would let him/her do photo editing.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[Harlan Grove]

And I stick with my original response that Word is not a photo
editing program. Just because you can use a program to make it
do something it is not it's primary purpose, doesn't mean you
should. I am a strong believer in user the right tool for the
job. Chances are the OP has a program on his computer that
would let him/her do photo editing.

....

I agree that one should use the right tool for the job, but that begs the
question what the job is. If the OP were creating a set of forms mostly
containing text with a picture of person or object in, say, the upper right
corner, creating the forms would be the task, and placing the pictures would
be nothing more than a component of the task. It'd be up to the OP rather
than you or me to decide the level of quality acceptable in pictures in such
forms.

The OP may have other tools that provide better photo editing tools, but it
may not be possible to automate them. If the OP had dozens to hundreds of
photos to resize in separate pages of predominantly text documents, then
using the tools Word provides, whether or not there may be better MANUAL
tools available, would nevertheless be the better way to go. On the other
hand, if the OP had only 2 or 3 pictures, then it may make more sense to
seek other, better tools.

More often than not, automation is the ideal. It may not be as good in all
situations as hand crafting, but it can be much, much faster. If the OP's
primary goal is speed, your comments are still irrelevant.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Speed and shortcuts aren't always the best solution.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[Harlan Grove]

Speed and shortcuts aren't always the best solution.

....

True, but that's for the OP to decide if you'd bothered to give some
alternatives.