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Old November 24th, 2005, 04:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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Make sure the paragraph you're inserting them into doesn't have Exact line
spacing. If you want all the graphics to be the same height or width, put
the field in a table cell.

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On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:10:30 -0700, Barry S.
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On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:20:45 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

Are you pressing F9 to update the field after you edit it?


No, but that seems to help though..


Cool. I now have lots of includefile fields that update properly, but
when the photos are inserted, it seems like the photos are being
cropped/cut off. Is there a way to insert the photos without any
cropping or unintended additional formatting?


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Old November 24th, 2005, 05:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:42:13 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
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Make sure the paragraph you're inserting them into doesn't have Exact line
spacing. If you want all the graphics to be the same height or width, put
the field in a table cell.


They are going into two boxes.. 2 pictures Side by side. Initially 1
line high.. 1200x1600 format.

When inserted directly in, they are fine. When inserted via
includefile, they seem to take on a default sizing of their own. Is
there a way to "force" them to fill a cell?

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Old November 24th, 2005, 03:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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If a picture is smaller than the designated "box," I don't think there's any
way to make it larger. My experience was with shoehorning very large photos
into smaller cells.

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On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:42:13 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

Make sure the paragraph you're inserting them into doesn't have Exact

line
spacing. If you want all the graphics to be the same height or width, put
the field in a table cell.


They are going into two boxes.. 2 pictures Side by side. Initially 1
line high.. 1200x1600 format.

When inserted directly in, they are fine. When inserted via
includefile, they seem to take on a default sizing of their own. Is
there a way to "force" them to fill a cell?

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Old November 25th, 2005, 06:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:28:44 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

If a picture is smaller than the designated "box," I don't think there's any
way to make it larger. My experience was with shoehorning very large photos
into smaller cells.


No, the photo seems to take on some pre-designated default size when
included as an include file field. When clicking on the box and then
inserting a photo, it's fine.

It's like using the field code is forcing some kind of formatting
change.


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Old November 25th, 2005, 04:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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FWIW, the field code I'm using is this:

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Suzanne S. Barnhill\\My
Documents\\My Pictures\\Rotary\\Member Photos\\{ IF { MERGEFIELD Photo } =
"" "No Photo" "{ MERGEFIELD Photo }" }.JPG" \d }

I'm inserting it into a table cell with exact height and preferred width.

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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:28:44 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

If a picture is smaller than the designated "box," I don't think there's

any
way to make it larger. My experience was with shoehorning very large

photos
into smaller cells.


No, the photo seems to take on some pre-designated default size when
included as an include file field. When clicking on the box and then
inserting a photo, it's fine.

It's like using the field code is forcing some kind of formatting
change.


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Old November 28th, 2005, 06:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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It seems to just come in as default when linked.
You format the pic for desired size, but it seems to revert when you
change the source or update it.
Maybe use a quick VBA routine to update and resize the pics?
here's my field contents:
{ INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\Documents and Settings\\jm065225\\My
Documents\\My Pictures\\1.bmp" \* MERGEFORMAT \d }

Jay

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Old December 4th, 2005, 05:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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On 28 Nov 2005 09:15:00 -0800, "jay m" wrote:

It seems to just come in as default when linked.
You format the pic for desired size, but it seems to revert when you
change the source or update it.


That sounds like what is happening.

Maybe use a quick VBA routine to update and resize the pics?
here's my field contents:


Hmm, I only want them to resize to fill the table cell on a document
that gets edited every week. I suspect it retains some sort of
formatting when I do an insert picture, but I lose it when I try to do
an IncludePicture..

I'm not looking to change the actual size of the picuture.. (Eg. Not
go from 1600x1200 to 640x480) So the change is a formatting only
change. Is there some sort of VBA script that will change the
formatting only in the document?

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\Documents and Settings\\jm065225\\My
Documents\\My Pictures\\1.bmp" \* MERGEFORMAT \d }


Which is basically what I have..


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Old December 4th, 2005, 09:34 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 21:05:53 -0700, Barry S.
wrote:

On 28 Nov 2005 09:15:00 -0800, "jay m" wrote:

It seems to just come in as default when linked.
You format the pic for desired size, but it seems to revert when you
change the source or update it.


That sounds like what is happening.


Decided to record some macros tonight to see what I had..

Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
'
InlineShapes.AddPicture FileName:= _
"C:\test\test.JPG", LinkToFile:=True _
, SaveWithDocument:=True
End Sub

All desired formatting was retained.. Is there a way to type the VBA
directly into a table cell?

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Old December 6th, 2005, 01:13 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
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Check the Word MVPs FAQ-
I know you can create a button or other control linked to a macro.
Maybe there's a better way.

 




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