[Michael]

Hi Again Doug,

I have now found the "Automatically Resize To Fit Contents" check box under
Table Properties -- Table -- Options
( I should have seen it before )

So it looks like your reply is the winner for now.

Thanks again much appreciated

Kind Regards
Michael
..

Thanks so much
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Insert a one row, one column table with the desired cell dimensions at the
location where you want the pictures to appear.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Michael" wrote in message
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Hi All,

I want to insert an empty picture place holder in a word document, for
later
inserting when finalising.

Basically I create reports that are often 100 pages in length,, I then
have
to insert graphics, flow charts, images etc, each of these are often
500kb
so including them in the reports as I go only slows down the computer,
especially as the report is kept on a network file system. Even working
on a
local version (stored on my hard disk is quite slow).

As a result I want to put in picture place holders much in the same way as
can be used in Powerpoint, so I can space out the documents correctly and
then insert the images etc at the very end.

Using a text box, autoshape etc doesn't seem to work as it resizes
automatically to the image size. Whereas I want to fix the picture
"frame"
size so when I bring in the graphic/image/flowchart etc it fits the frame
I
have created for it thereby eliminating the need to mess around with
formatting.

I am sure you used to be able to do this in Word for Windows (3.11) but it
seems to have disappeared in later versions. I am using Word for Office
XP.