Two thoughts;
Make sure you're in Print Layout View rather than Normal View - graphics
don't display in Normal View unless they're formatted as In Line With Text,
and
There's a second setting to look for - Tools>Options>View - Drawings [may be
somewhat different in 2000 - can't remember].
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HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
"Michael Cutter" <michael[ at ]centurai.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > Hi everyone -
>
> A quick search on Google hasn't turned up exactly what I'm looking for, so
> I'm turning to you all for some help!
> I've got a VB application which utilises Cyrstal Reports XI to spit out a
> report in editable RTF format. This report also contains some graphics
> which started life as BLOB fields in an Access database. They appear in
> the Word document exactly as you would hope they might.... on some
> machines anyway. On others there are no visible graphics, and I'm
> struggling to see why that might be. It doesn't seem to matter what
> version of Word I use (I've tried 2000, XP and 2003) or the version of
> Windows (ME, 2000, XP).
> I've put a document on a USB memory stick, and dragged it round NINE
> machines with varying combinations of the above OS and Word. Open the
> document off the memory stick, and some show the graphics, some don't.
> Initially I thought this might be the "Show Picture Placeholders" setting,
> but it doesn't seem to be that. It must be a Word setting, and it's the
> same physical document I'm opening, and I'm sure it's blindingly obvious.
>
> Can someone please shed some light into my dark dark world? Thanks!
>
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