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How to enlarge or shrink picture with one click in Excel?

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Supposing there are multiple pictures in a sheet which are in different sizes. Do you have any ways to enlarge or shrink these pictures in one size with one click? There is no built-in feature to solve it, but in this article, I introduce a VBA code to enlarge or shrink all pictures in the sheet with one click.

Enlarge and shrink pictures with one click by VBA

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Do as below steps to enlarge or shrink pictures with one click.

1. Right click at the sheet tab where you want to resize the pictures, and select View Code from context menu.
A screenshot showing how to open the VBA editor for resizing pictures in Excel

2. In the popping Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, and paste below code to the blank script.

VBA: Enlarge and shrink pictures with one click

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
'UpdatebyEntendoffice20161111
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    Dim xRg As Range, sPic As Shape
      For Each sPic In ActiveSheet.Shapes
        If Target.Column > 1 Then
            Set xRg = Target.Offset(, -1)
            With sPic
              If TypeName(.OLEFormat.Object) = "Picture" Then
                  If .TopLeftCell.Address = xRg.Address Then
                      .Height = 350
                      .Width = 250
                  End If
              End If
            End With
        ElseIf Target.Column = 1 Then
            With sPic
                If TypeName(.OLEFormat.Object) = "Picture" Then
                   .Height = 60
                   .Width = 60
                End If
            End With
        End If
      Next sPic
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
A screenshot of the pasted VBA code

3. Save the code and close the window. And when you click at any cell of column A, all pictures will be shrunk. See screenshot:
A screenshot showing all pictures shrunk after clicking on a cell in column A in Excel

4. And when you click at the cell which at the right top of the picture, the relative picture will be enlarged. See screenshot:
A screenshot showing an enlarged picture in Excel after clicking on the top-right cell of the image

Tip. If you want to quickly insert watermark in a sheet, please try to use the Kutools for Excel’s Insert Watermark as shown in the following screenshot.

Insert watermark using Kutools

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