Inserting a picture as a thumbnail

[acolby]

Is there a way to insert a picture in a Word document, as a thumbnail, so
that when the picture is double clicked it then enlarges?

[Bob Buckland ?:-)]

Hi AColby,

It can depend on the version of Word and what you're
really wanting to achieve on what you can do.
There isn't a built in thumbnail to original
picture size feature in Word. Powerpoint has
a Photo Album capability and MS Office FrontPage
has a thumbnail gallery function to create a
web page that Word should be able to open and use.

In Word, do you want to have the thumbnail and the full
size in the same Word document? Here's how to
do a couple of methods manually.

You can insert a picture from file,
select it and duplicate it (if it's not wrapped as
inline with text use Ctrl+D, if it's inline with
text copy then paste), right click on the copy
and use Format=>Picture=>/Size\ and choose 20% or
a specific size in pixels or dimensions, position
the two graphics and then place them in the document
where you want them. Then select the larger one
and choose Insert=>Bookmark to give it an anchor name.
Next Select the thumbnail and use Ctrl+K (insert Hyperlink)
and link to the bookmark item.

You could also insert a single picture of the graphic
and resize it to thumbnail and hyperlink to the original
graphic file, which would launch whatever graphic viewer
you've associated with that particular file type.

If you've resized an inserted picture as a thumbnail rather
than create a small picture to insert you may be able
to use a macro to resize it to normal to view it then
resize it back to thumbnail.

You can use Word macros to automate all or
any part of the process, such as duplicating a
picture and making all of the thumbnails the same
size when the picture is inserted, or later
and/or place each thumbnail into a table cell
as a 'gallery' then open the hyperlink dialog and
link to the full size picture or a macro that creates
a quick blank web document and pops up the picture
in your browser as a web page view of that document
with only the picture in it.

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