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When I first loaded Word 07, I had no trouble with displaying pictures but suddenly it stopped working. Not sure why. Now just a black box. It will print out the image, I just can't see it. When I resize the image it is briefly visible too. Have tried: - changing the view - no luck - checking the tick box for picture placeholders and for drawings - no luck - emptying the temporary IE cache - no luck
Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone have a solution?
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Stephen,
Hope you are around to see this, I'm 45 days late..
I don't know about it working and then not working, but inserting (specifically linking a drawing, photo, or picture) does not appear to work correctly. In word 2003 I have no problem linking a .bmp or .jpg in a document. One inserts the picture and makes sure that the "link" checkbox is checked and in pops the picture clear as day. In Word 2007. I beat my head against the screen trying to make it work. I tried linking a package and that doesn't work, you just get a box with the filename in it, no picture though. The only thing I've found so far is to Insert->Picture, selest the picture, look down in the right bottom for the insert button, click the drop down button and select "link" not "insert" and not "insert and link". You will get a picture as you would expect. For the picture to update with any changes made to the external file, you have to exit the file and then reopen it, unlike in 2003 in which you right click the image and select "update". If there is something else that works, I don't know what it is. As it is, this seems a big step backwards from 2003.
"Stephen H" <Stephen H[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:70E13525-6862-44A2-9FE7-FF897858F62F[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > When I first loaded Word 07, I had no trouble with displaying pictures but > suddenly it stopped working. Not sure why. Now just a black box. It > will > print out the image, I just can't see it. When I resize the image it is > briefly visible too. > Have tried: > - changing the view - no luck > - checking the tick box for picture placeholders and for drawings - no > luck > - emptying the temporary IE cache - no luck > > Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone have a solution?
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Hi J.,
In Word 2003, linking via Insert=>Object adds a bit of baggage that using Insert=>Picture=>From File and then using [Insert|Link] does not. Linking to a 'Package' in either version gives you what you saw, an icon that can be 'activated' by double clicking it, but not the actual item, it's 'packaged' for travel rather than for display.
In Word 2007 Insert=>Picture is the equivalentto Word 2003's Insert=>Picture from File.
To update linked pictures in Word 2007 there are a several methods, similar to Word 2003, but some are in different locations. You can still select the picture and use F9 to update a linked picture you've made changes to, or you can use Office Button=>Prepare=>Edit Links. The Edit Links choice only appears if there are linked pictures in the document.
Office 2007 uses a new graphic engine and has some features that are better and a few became a bit more odd in Word.
=========== <<"JBower" <jbower[ at ]ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:Bpg2l.10177$yr3.7801[ at ]nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com... Stephen,
Hope you are around to see this, I'm 45 days late..
I don't know about it working and then not working, but inserting (specifically linking a drawing, photo, or picture) does not appear to work correctly. In word 2003 I have no problem linking a .bmp or .jpg in a document. One inserts the picture and makes sure that the "link" checkbox is checked and in pops the picture clear as day. In Word 2007. I beat my head against the screen trying to make it work. I tried linking a package and that doesn't work, you just get a box with the filename in it, no picture though. The only thing I've found so far is to Insert->Picture, selest the picture, look down in the right bottom for the insert button, click the drop down button and select "link" not "insert" and not "insert and link". You will get a picture as you would expect. For the picture to update with any changes made to the external file, you have to exit the file and then reopen it, unlike in 2003 in which you right click the image and select "update". If there is something else that works, I don't know what it is. As it is, this seems a big step backwards from 2003. << --
Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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