Publisher.PictureFormat.VerticalPictureLocking.md

title	keywords	f1_keywords	api_name	ms.assetid	ms.date	ms.localizationpriority
PictureFormat.VerticalPictureLocking property (Publisher)	vbapb10.chm3604745	vbapb10.chm3604745	Publisher.PictureFormat.VerticalPictureLocking	0575d733-b515-2256-7136-6ec07532ab67	06/13/2019	medium

PictureFormat.VerticalPictureLocking property (Publisher)

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 Publisher type library.

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.

With ActiveDocument.Pages(1).Shapes(1).PictureFormat 
 .HorizontalPictureLocking = pbHorizontalLockingLeft 
 .VerticalPictureLocking = pbVerticalLockingTop 
End With

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