Call-Outs do not always display on screen and not at all in printo

[Tank]

Using Word 2000, I often create guidelines on topics and use screenshots
(PrintScreen) and call-outs (with text of course) added after I paste the
screenshot into a document. In the past, the call-outs always appear in print
layout and displayed in printouts as expected.

But today, my call-outs (new and existing) display only occasionally if I
click in different places either on the screenshot or outside the screenshot.
That is, they do not initially display, but if I click here and there on the
screen, the call-out might appear (but will never appear in printout or
layout display). This inconsistent display behavior is new --- never had
problem in the past. Now, the call-outs do not appear at all in all my
printouts of new and existing Word document guidelines I created.

The screenshot is well below the top margin and well above the bottom
margin, so the call-out is nowhere near a margin that might somehow split it
in display. I checked help, and found no reference to correcting this. Does
anyone have an answer to this problem?

Thanks,
Tank

 

[Mary Sauer]

Read the third FAQ here, it is Publisher specific, but it can applied to your
issue.
http://ed.mvps.org/Static.aspx?=Publisher/FAQs

 

[Keith Howell]

Were your callouts and screenshots grouped together? If not have you somehow
changed a page layout dimension so that some of your callouts are behind the
screenshots

 

[Tank]

I reviewed recent postings and found one dated 7-25-07 that helped: "Lines
and boxes won't preview or print"...

garfield-n-odie [MVP] provided advice that worked for me, as it had for the
poster, Intrepid. In particular, garfield-n-odie suggested in #2, "In Word,
click on Tools | Options | View tab | check the "drawings box and uncheck the
"Picture placeholders" box | print tab | check the "Drawing objects" box | OK"

In my case, it was the "Drawing objects" box that needed checking in the
Print tab. Thanks, garfield-n-oldie.