With your help, I have made some progress in this project. Unfortunately, I keep running into small frustrating issues that eat up way too much time.

i've looked for a photo template that would work, but have been unable to find a good pre-made template for photos beyond the linked one i included in this thread . . . and disappointed there wasn't a good explanation of how it was created.

Considering the hours put into this, for what someone skilled in Word could do in 15 minutes, I think I would be better off to just pay someone to make this template. (Any recommendations on where to look?)

I appreciate your help and apologize for not being able to use your advice in a productive manner.

Hi verbster,

I've no idea where you'd go for professional help - I don't even know what country you're in.

No need to apologize; we all need time to become proficient. I've never needed to do the kind of thing you're wanting to do either, so it's a bit of a learning experience for me too.

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Changing strategies, I think. What do you recommend as a quick way to put a frame or some kind of placeholder for specific sized photos that users can insert photos into.

For example, if i wanted to put two 3x5 areas, one above the other, so a user could insert one photo per 3x5 area (and have the photo resize itself upon insertion), which tool would be best to use?

One last question: Does Word support a way to use thumbnails of photos that will expand when clicked?

Thanks.

Hi verbster,

If you use fixed-size table cells, all a user would need to do to create a new one to insert a photo into is to press tab from the end of the last cell. That'll generate a new table row with the same dimensions as the old one.

As for the thumbnails, you could mimick that with a macro and by placing the images inside a MACROBUTTON field. Not something I'd be suggesting for the user to do; it's more like the kind of thing a developer might do to allow thumbnail toggling in a finished document. See attached.

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PicSizer.zip (112.0 KB, 13 views)

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]