Macro to format picture layout?

[Margaret Bartley]

Word XP

My favorite format for Wrapping Style, in the Format Picture menu option is
"Tight".

I don't see an icon for that in the Option menu, to put on the Toolbar, so
I'd like to just create a macro, and assign it to an icon, and place that
custom macro in my toolbar, but I can't do that, either, because when I am
creating a macro, the dialog box to choose a Wrapping Sthyle is diabled!

Is there something I'm missing - an option or menu that I'm missing?

If not, can I do it with VBA? Should I post this in one of the VBA groups?

Many thanks

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Margaret,

If you use View=>Toolbars to turn on the Picture toolbar and then turn on menu/toolbar customization by using Tools=>Customize
Commands, you can then, on your picture toolbar click on the 'Text wrapping' icon and from the menu that opens hold the ctrl key
while dragging a copy of the 'tight' icon to another location so you'll have it as a separate choice on the toolbar or menu you
choose. The Ctrl key lets you copy rather than move a toolbar button.

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Word XP

My favorite format for Wrapping Style, in the Format Picture menu option is
"Tight".

I don't see an icon for that in the Option menu, to put on the Toolbar, so
I'd like to just create a macro, and assign it to an icon, and place that
custom macro in my toolbar, but I can't do that, either, because when I am
creating a macro, the dialog box to choose a Wrapping Sthyle is diabled!

Is there something I'm missing - an option or menu that I'm missing?

If not, can I do it with VBA? Should I post this in one of the VBA groups?

Many thanks <<
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Or Margaret could just select Tight as the default wrapping style.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Suzanne,

True I have each of the wrapping settings added to a toolbar. When I select a shape or a graphic the current state/setting
button is active. I can't count on documents coming in with graphics all being 'obvious' or consistent as to their wrap settings,
especially where some of the content is pasted and other parts inserted from file and setting the default won't change the
'already done' ones <g>.

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Or Margaret could just select Tight as the default wrapping style.

Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word) >>

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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Not to mention that the default setting doesn't, unfortunately, affect Paste
Special (a longstanding gripe of mine).

 

[Margaret Bartley]

What's the difference, in the final document, between pasting a graphic, or
inserting it from a file?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No real difference: the picture is embedded in the document either way. The
advantage to inserting it from a file is that (a) there *is* a file, so if
anything happens to the picture in the document, you can reinsert it, and
(b) if the document doesn't need to be portable (it will live just on your
computer), you can link to the file instead of embedding it. The latter
option used to be particularly vital for templates, so that every document
based on the template wasn't inflated by the picture size, but it's less
vital in current versions of Word, which compress pictures internally to
keep file size down.