Thanks

Tamar has them describt as properties in her Henzenwerke book about office automation

Peter

>The scaleHeight and scaleWidth are methods not properties. Did you try to use Height and Width properties? Keep in mind that they are expressed in points not pixels.
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>>I an inserting pictures int o a word doc through atomation with this code
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>> oPic=.SELECTION.InlineShapes.AddPicture(laPhotoName[m.I2] ,.F., .T.)
>> oPic.scaleHeight=MIN(oPic.scaleHeight,100)
>> oPic.scaleWidth=MIN(oPic.scaleWidth,100)
>>
>>
>>but unfortunately the picture don't get restricted to 100 pixels
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>>some of them take up a whole page instead just a small Pict at the top of the page
>>what am I doing wrong??
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>>Thanks
>>
>>
>>Peter