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select multiple images in Word to resize all selected

Anonymous
2012-08-15T17:24:30+00:00

Hello. I am using Word 2010 on XP

I am trying to keep an archive of a website by copying each page (via screen shot) into Word. The images are pasted on a landscape 11x8.5 document. When I paste these they do not fill up the page, but are scaled in at 32%. I want to select all of these images to resize them all to about 50% so they all fill up the page more.

I am not able to press the shift key and select 2 or more. Each web page is on it's own page in Word.

These are set for in-line, which is the way I like. I do not have any text in this document. Is there a way to select them all, select all does not work. Formatting a picture was not the same as it was in 2003. Why did they get rid of that right-click format picture? Anyway, that's another story.

Thank you in advance.

PS- maybe I should use Publisher, it's just some do not work with that program here.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-05-12T01:18:36+00:00

    This is not as good as the macro option as you still can't select all images at once, but for those who don't know anything about using macros you can change the picture size for your first image then hit F4 when selecting your next image to get a uniform image size. 

    To size all images to the same height and width:

    1. Right click first image, open 'Size and Position' box (or open box from the Picture -> Format -> Size box. You need the size box, not just the height and width options in the tab, to disable the lock aspect ratio or this won't work)
    2. Disable 'Lock Aspect Ratio'
    3. Change height and width to desired size
    4. Close box
    5. Click on next image and hit F4. Continue by clicking on sequential images and hitting F4.
    6. For large documents, use the vertical scroll bar on the right hand side to move between images

    Uniform aspect ratio for all images

    1. Right click first image, open 'Size and Position' box (or open box from the Picture -> Format -> Size box).
    2. Change the aspect ratio % value
    3. Close box
    4. Click on next image and hit F4. Note, the aspect ratio value wasn't changed to exactly the same value for all images, but was close (53 % instead of 50%) so the macro way is more precise
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  2. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 322.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2012-08-15T19:44:16+00:00

    Hello. I am using Word 2010 on XP

    I am trying to keep an archive of a website by copying each page (via screen shot) into Word. The images are pasted on a landscape 11x8.5 document. When I paste these they do not fill up the page, but are scaled in at 32%. I want to select all of these images to resize them all to about 50% so they all fill up the page more.

    I am not able to press the shift key and select 2 or more. Each web page is on it's own page in Word.

    These are set for in-line, which is the way I like. I do not have any text in this document. Is there a way to select them all, select all does not work. Formatting a picture was not the same as it was in 2003. Why did they get rid of that right-click format picture? Anyway, that's another story.

    Try using a macro with the following code:

    Dim i As Long

    With ActiveDocument

        For i = 1 To .InlineShapes.Count

            With .InlineShapes(i)

                .ScaleHeight = 50

                .ScaleWidth = 50

            End With

        Next i

    End With

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-09-01T06:25:04+00:00

    Try using a macro with the following code:

    Dim i As Long

    With ActiveDocument

        For i = 1 To .InlineShapes.Count

            With .InlineShapes(i)

                .ScaleHeight = 50

                .ScaleWidth = 50

            End With

        Next i

    End With

    awesome sir, very good code. perfect.

    when someone wants to resize all the images in ms word. select the above code, click on view, create a new macros, copy paste and it works like a charm.

    you saved so much of my time.

    you are awesome.

    nash

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-08-16T13:31:26+00:00

    Hi Stefan. When I click the Ctrl key it doesn't work. When I have one object selected with the Ctrl key held down still, I try to select the next object, but I get nothing. The cursor turns into a white arrow with what looks like a tiny little text box with a plus sign, but I am unable to select. I tried Shift, I tried alt, I tried combinations of both, all 3...nothing. I need to have this set in-line.

    I just in general want to know how to select more than one object. I think it is very odd that you are not able to this easily in a program like this. I believe you can in PowerPoint, so why not Word?

    If I use the screen shot copy and paste, I do not need to use that macro. I am just going to use Publisher. It seems to do the trick. I will just convert to .pdf so everyone can open it.

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  5. Stefan Blom 339.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2012-08-16T17:57:07+00:00

    Sorry, Ctrl + click only works with objects whose Text Wrapping is not "In line with text"; I missed that your objects were "In line with text." :-(

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