PictureFormat.VerticalPictureLocking Property

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Publisher Developer Reference

Returns or sets a PbVerticalPictureLocking constant indicating where newly inserted pictures appear in relation to the specified frame. Read/write.

Syntax

expression.VerticalPictureLocking

expression   A variable that represents a PictureFormat object.

Return Value
PbVerticalPictureLocking

Remarks

The Vertical PictureLocking property value can be one of the PbVerticalPictureLocking constants declared in the Microsoft Office Publisher type library and shown in the following table.

Constant Description
pbVerticalLockingBottom New pictures are inserted along the bottom edge of the frame.
pbVerticalLockingNone New pictures are inserted in the center between the top and bottom edges of the frame.
pbVerticalLockingStretch New pictures are vertically stretched to the full height of the frame.
pbVerticalLockingTop New pictures are inserted along the top edge of the frame.

Example

The following example locks the specified picture to the upper-left corner of the picture frame. Shape one on page one of the active publication must be a picture frame for this example to work.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  With ActiveDocument.Pages(1).Shapes(1).PictureFormat
    .HorizontalPictureLocking = pbHorizontalLockingLeft
    .VerticalPictureLocking = pbVerticalLockingTop
End With

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