Imagine this — you want to insert a few images into your Word document. Initially, the images are different sizes, but you want them to be the same size in your document. While one can get help from suitable photo editing tools, sometimes they do not have access to them. In such cases, you can use Microsoft Word itself to resize all the pictures.
There’s no denying the fact that Microsoft Word is great when it comes to text. But if you dig deep, you’ll also reveal its hidden features related to other things like photo editing. For example, did you know that you can give your picture a perfectly round shape right in Word?
Similarly, you can make pictures of the same size in Word. Let’s see how to do this using the two methods mentioned below.
Method 1: Using Macros
Sometimes we wish we had just one button that, when pressed, would automatically perform a difficult task. In Word, macros do this.
Macros automate a specific task that would otherwise require you to perform it over and over again. You can create a macro by recording the steps you want to perform or by writing a set of instructions.
Since we need to resize all images in MS Word, we will be getting help from Macros. We used to write the code to resize the photos. Don’t get confused. Here are the detailed steps:
Stage 1: Open the Word file where you want to make all the pictures the same size.
step 2: Click the first photo in the file to select it. Then click on the View tab at the top.
Stage 3: Click Macros.
Step 4: A popup window will open. Type a name in the box under Macro name. You can name it anything. For the sake of understanding, we call it Resize.
Then click Create.
step 5: A new Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window will open. Select and delete existing code.
Step 6: Then copy and paste one of the codes below into the window.
Plug: If you want to change the height and width in pixels use the code below. Replace 500 and 600 with your own values.
Sub resize() Dim i As Long With ActiveDocument For i = 1 To .InlineShapes.Count With .InlineShapes(i) .Height = 500 .Width = 600 End With Next i End With End Sub
Type B: Use this if you want to change the size to inches. Replace 2 with your own value.
Sub resize() Dim i As Long With ActiveDocument For i = 1 To .InlineShapes.Count With .InlineShapes(i) .Height = InchesToPoints(2) .Width = InchesToPoints(2) End With Next i End With End Sub
Type C: If you want to scale images, the following code will help you. Replace 30 and 40 with your preferred values.
Sub resize() Dim i As Long With ActiveDocument For i = 1 To .InlineShapes.Count With .InlineShapes(i) .ScaleHeight = 30 .ScaleWidth = 40 End With Next i End With End Sub
Step 7: Once copied, click the cross icon to close the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
Step 8: With the image selected, click Macros again under the View tab.
Step 9: The Macros window will open. With your macro selected, click Run.
As soon as you hit the run button, you will notice that all images will change in size.
Method 2: Using the Magic Key
Did you know that you can repeat the last action you performed in Microsoft Office apps by simply clicking a button on your keyboard? This key is F4 on Windows and Y on Mac.
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Here are the steps of this method:
Stage 1: Open the Word document containing your images.
Step 2: Right click the first image and select Size and Position.
Stage 3: In the Layout box that opens, click the Size tab. Then uncheck the box next to Lock aspect ratio. Enter the required values for the height and width of the images in the boxes provided. Click OK.
Step 4: You will notice that the size of the selected image will change. Now, click the other pictures one by one and press F4 (or fn + F4 on Windows) or Y (on macOS) for each one. Doing so will repeat the process done in step 3 – change the height and width of the image.
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Size Matters
A well-organized document with properly sized images looks better than an unorganized document. While the above methods will allow you to accomplish your purpose of resizing all images, we wish there was an easy way. Until you get it, you will have to rely on the two methods mentioned above. If you know another way, we are always listening to the comments below.
Next: Want to change the theme of Microsoft Office products? Learn how to change theme and disable dark mode in Word, Excel and PowerPoint from the given link.
