UserPicture Method

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

UserPicture Method

       

Fills the specified shape with one large image. If you want to fill the shape with small tiles of an image, use the UserTextured method.

expression.UserPicture(PictureFile)

expression   Required. An expression that returns a FillFormat object.

PictureFile   Required String. The name of the picture file.

Example

This example adds two rectangles to the active document. The rectangle on the left is filled with one large image of the picture in Tiles.bmp; the rectangle on the right is filled with many small tiles of the picture in Tiles.bmp.

Sub Pic()
    '  Windows NT and Windows2000 users need to
    '  specify a different explicit path to a bitmap
    '  file in the methods below.
    With ActiveDocument.Shapes
        .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, 0, 0, 200, 100).Fill _
            .UserPicture "C:\Windows\Tiles.bmp"
        .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, 300, 0, 200, 100).Fill _
            .UserTextured "C:\Windows\Tiles.bmp"
    End With
End Sub