Can't record a macro

[Charles Kenyon]

Mouse movements and manipulations are not something a macro can record. You
need to write the macro and to do that you need to learn vba.

Before undertaking that, though, realize that editing pictures in Word
(including resizing) greatly bloats the file size. You will store at least
two copies of the picture in Word when you do this. If you can resize the
pictures in another program first and then insert them into Word you will
eliminate this problem. If this isn't a problem for you, go ahead and resize
in Word.
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[Jezebel]

A macro is indeed just the thing; but you can't create this sort of macro
using the recorder. You'll have to write it yourself.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

That's not resizing the "picture", that's resizing the "magnification" at
which the picture is displayed. So you are correct: dragging a corner of
the picture has no effect on the underlying file-size.

In Word 2000, you would need to use Microsoft PhotoEditor to to a proper
"resizing". That version of word can't do it in situ.

The idea is to remove from the file the pixels you do not intend to display.

Cheers

Charles - with memory space becoming cheaper all the time, file size isn't
something I usually worry about too much, UNLESS it gets ridiculous, but I
did a couple of small tests to check out your resizing comments (Win XP and
Word 2000), and to see if I was wasting space.

1. Blank document - 19 KB
2. Small Picture - not resized 28 KB
3. Small Picture - Resized 28 KB
4. Three paragraphs of text 21 KB
5. Large Picture (1491 KB) 1,522 KB
6. Large Picture (1491 KB) resized 1,521 KB
7. Large picture (1491 KB) resized to cover whole page 1,521 KB

It doesn't seem to make much difference to the doc size if the picture is
just resized (at least from this small test). I'm just resizing and
positioning, not editing the content. I would agree that it is always best
to reduce the size of the picture to the actual page size (or very close)
before you drop it in a document (had a couple of 100 Meg doc files teach me
that one... dropping hi-res digital photos straight on a page...), but what
is done after that doesn't seem to matter - or is my testing regimen too
simple ?

Regards,

Rob Lepper

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[OM]

I have a lot of pictures that I am puting on multiple pages, and would like
them all the same size and relative position on the pages.
I thought that a macro would be just the thing for this, but when I click on
"Record new macro", then right click on my picture, the layout screen is
greyed out, and I cannot select or modify anything. Why is this, and how do
I get around it.

Win XP and Word 2000

Thanks folks,

Robert Lepper

 

[OM]

Charles - with memory space becoming cheaper all the time, file size isn't
something I usually worry about too much, UNLESS it gets ridiculous, but I
did a couple of small tests to check out your resizing comments (Win XP and
Word 2000), and to see if I was wasting space.

1. Blank document - 19 KB
2. Small Picture - not resized 28 KB
3. Small Picture - Resized 28 KB
4. Three paragraphs of text 21 KB
5. Large Picture (1491 KB) 1,522 KB
6. Large Picture (1491 KB) resized 1,521 KB
7. Large picture (1491 KB) resized to cover whole page 1,521 KB

It doesn't seem to make much difference to the doc size if the picture is
just resized (at least from this small test). I'm just resizing and
positioning, not editing the content. I would agree that it is always best
to reduce the size of the picture to the actual page size (or very close)
before you drop it in a document (had a couple of 100 Meg doc files teach me
that one... dropping hi-res digital photos straight on a page...), but what
is done after that doesn't seem to matter - or is my testing regimen too
simple ?

Regards,

Rob Lepper

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Thank you for pointing this out. I just tested and what I thought to be true
is not true in Word 2003.

I tried with a larger picture.
On my system I get:
1. Blank document - 30 KB
2. Document with inserted jpg - 153 KB
3. Document with resized jpg - 153 KB
4. Document with cropped jpg - 149 KB!

Using a tif file instead I don't get the smaller size for a cropped image
but don't get larger either.

So two possibilities that occur to me are that the original is not being
retained and that the original is retained along with instructions for
changing what is displayed and printed. Also, the results may be very
different with different image formats.
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Charles Kenyon

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