How to enlarge image when click on it in Excel?
Supposing you have inserted a list of pictures into a column and matched the picture sizes with the cell sizes as below screenshot shown. As the inserted picture looks small, you may need to enlarge it for some purposes. This article will show you method of enlarging a picture when click on it in Excel, and recovering to the original size by the second click.
Enlarge image when click on it with VBA code
Enlarge image when click on it with VBA code
The following VBA code can help you to enlarge an image when click on it in Excel. Please do as follows.
1. Right click the picture which you need to enlarge by just clicking on it, then click Assign Macro from the context menu. See screenshot:
2. In the Assign Macro dialog box, please click the New button.
3. In the popping up Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, please copy and paste the below VBA code between the Sub and End Sub codes. See screenshot:
VBA code: Enlarge image by click on it in Excel
Dim shp As Shape
Dim big As Single, small As Single
Dim shpDouH As Double, shpDouOriH As Double
big = 3
small = 1
On Error Resume Next
Set shp = ActiveSheet.Shapes(Application.Caller)
With shp
shpDouH = .Height
.ScaleHeight 1, msoTrue, msoScaleFromTopLeft
shpDouOriH = .Height
If Round(shpDouH / shpDouOriH, 2) = big Then
.ScaleHeight small, msoTrue, msoScaleFromTopLeft
.ScaleWidth small, msoTrue, msoScaleFromTopLeft
.ZOrder msoSendToBack
Else
.ScaleHeight big, msoTrue, msoScaleFromTopLeft
.ScaleWidth big, msoTrue, msoScaleFromTopLeft
.ZOrder msoBringToFront
End If
End WithNote: In the code, you can assign the large sizes of the picture in the code big = 3.
4. Then press the Alt + Q keys simultaneously to close the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
From now on, when click on the picture, it will be enlarged to the size you specified, and click it again will recover to the original size as below screenshots shown.
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