Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Displaying Thumbnails and Full-Size Images.
Bob has some graphic images that he's captured in GIF format. He would like to display the image in his Word document as a small thumbnail, but then have the image display full size if someone clicks on the thumbnail.
We've seen this done on Web sites before, but not in Word documents. That doesn't mean it can't be done; it can be. Basically you just need to use the same procedure that you would use in a Web page:
Each of the skills necessary to complete these two steps (resizing graphics, adding hyperlinks, etc.) has been covered in other issues of WordTips. The only drawback to this approach is that you end up with two copies of each graphic in your document, which means that your document can get rather large.
You could, of course, put each full-size image in its own document and only put the thumbnails in your main document. Thus, if your main document included five thumbnail graphics you would end up with six documents—the main one and five documents each containing a single large graphic. When you set up the hyperlinks on the thumbnails in the main document, they would link to the individual graphics in each of the other documents.
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2021-11-29 18:59:29
How can I make the full-size image appear with only a mouseover so that when I move the mouse over the thumbnail the full-size picture appears? I'm trying to use thumbnails of various products with a title of the products to the right of the thumbnails. Then to see exactly what the product looks like we only have to move our mouse over the thumbnail and a full-size picture of the product will show until we move the mouse off the thumbnail. Then if they click on the thumbnail or title, there would be a hyperlink to the full product picture and description.
2017-01-14 13:19:39
Allan Poe
While this no doubt works (I know of no way to convert the thumbnail image into a hyperlink that points to the full-size image.) another approach, which I use, is to simply insert the image. The viewer can then click it, grab a corner handle, enlarge it to whatever size he desires.
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