Click to view

[Pierre]

Is it possible to insert a picture/picture object and then be able to click
on the inserted picture (thumbnail) to view it in lets say image viewer.

intent - insert a picture as a thumbnail and then be able to click on it to
open in a large view. The document will end up being moved so a hyperlink
will not work.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Is it possible to insert a picture/picture object and then be able to
click on the inserted picture (thumbnail) to view it in lets say
image viewer.

intent - insert a picture as a thumbnail and then be able to click on
it to open in a large view. The document will end up being moved so
a hyperlink will not work.

Click Insert > Object > Create From File. Click the Browse button and
choose the picture file. Check the box for "Display as Icon". At that point
a Change Icon button will appear, and you can choose an icon from an .ico
file, a .dll file, or an .exe file if you don't like the default one.

Do not check the "Link To File" box, because that will insert a link instead
of embedding the picture file in the Word document.

Click OK. The icon will appear in the document at the insertion point.
Double-click it to launch the picture in the default viewer for the
picture's file extension.

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[Pierre]

First of all I would like to thank you for replying. Now the way that you
said is how I was going about doing it. The only issue is that I would like
a small version of the actual image to be viewed and not an icon. Is that
possible.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Pierre,

You can insert a thumbnail of the picture into your document (best to resize it outside of Word, first) using Insert=>Picture from
file, then select the picture and use Insert=>Hyperlink to link back to the 'regular size' picture on disk. That should open the
picture in what ever app you have selected for the particular .JPG/.PNG/.GIF etc file type for your computer.

If you inserted the full size graphic into the document then resized it there to be a thumbnail Word can store both sizes internally
and it may be possible to have a graphic inserted into a Word document resize on the fly when selected/deselected within a Word
document using macros and/or form fields but it would likely move everything around it 'out of the way' and change the document
appearance when it resized it for viewing.

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First of all I would like to thank you for replying. Now the way that you
said is how I was going about doing it. The only issue is that I would like
a small version of the actual image to be viewed and not an icon. Is that
possible.
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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