Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Microsoft 365. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Scaling Graphics in a Macro.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated December 8, 2022)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Microsoft 365
You may have a need to routinely scale graphics in your document by a certain percentage. Using the ribbon tools to do the scaling can get tiresome, so you may want to do the scaling by using a macro you can assign to the Quick Access Toolbar button or to a shortcut key. The following macro will handle doing the scaling very nicely:
Sub PictSize() Dim PercentSize As Integer PercentSize = InputBox("Enter percent of full size", _ "Resize Picture", 75) If Selection.InlineShapes.Count > 0 Then Selection.InlineShapes(1).ScaleHeight = PercentSize Selection.InlineShapes(1).ScaleWidth = PercentSize Else Selection.ShapeRange.ScaleHeight Factor:=(PercentSize / 100), _ RelativeToOriginalSize:=msoCTrue Selection.ShapeRange.ScaleWidth Factor:=(PercentSize / 100), _ RelativeToOriginalSize:=msoCTrue End If End Sub
The macro first asks for a percentage by which you want to scale the selected image, offering 75 (75%) as the default. When you specify a percentage, the macro then checks to see if the selected graphic is an inline or a floating graphic. The reason for doing this is that the object specification is different in each case, as well as how the scaling is specified. Inline objects belong to the InlineShapes collection, while floating objects are set using the ShapeRange object.
If you want to resize all the graphics in your document by the same percentage, then you only need to modify the above macro so that it steps through each of the inline graphics and then each of the floating graphics.
Sub AllPictSize() Dim PercentSize As Integer Dim oIshp As InlineShape Dim oshp As Shape PercentSize = InputBox("Enter percent of full size", _ "Resize Picture", 75) For Each oIshp In ActiveDocument.InlineShapes With oIshp .ScaleHeight = PercentSize .ScaleWidth = PercentSize End With Next oIshp For Each oshp In ActiveDocument.Shapes With oshp .ScaleHeight Factor:=(PercentSize / 100), _ RelativeToOriginalSize:=msoCTrue .ScaleWidth Factor:=(PercentSize / 100), _ RelativeToOriginalSize:=msoCTrue End With Next oshp End Sub
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