InlineShape Property

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

object that represents the picture, OLE object, or ActiveX control that is the result of an INCLUDEPICTURE or EMBED field.

expression.InlineShape

expression    Required. An expression that returns a Field object.

Remarks

An InlineShape object is treated like a character and is positioned as a character within a line of text.

Example

This example returns the width of the inline shape associated with the first field in the active document. For this example to work, the field must be an INCLUDEPICTURE field.

If ActiveDocument.Fields(1).Type = wdFieldIncludePicture Then
    MsgBox ActiveDocument.Fields(1).InlineShape.Width
End If