Can't find link to inserted image

[jimparkhurst]

Is there somewhere in Microsoft Word where you can see the name of the
image file you inserted? I can't believe that once an image in inserted
into a page, there's no way of knowing the name of the file to refer to
in case it needs to be revised.

 

[Carter Crain]

I think I have heard that if I remove some fonts Word will have better
performance. Maybe starting the program, working in the program and closing
it.

If that is true:
1. how do I know which fonts I can remove?
2. how do I know which locations to remove them from?

I have OS X 10.4.5 on 12" powerbook with 867 MHz and 640 MB ram.

I use Word 2004 v 11.2.3

Thanks

 

[little_creature]

Hi,
I will not help you to solve the first question as I do not have so many
experiences, but gnerally that might be true (at pre-press houses use
special aplication for font management) but DUNNO how this is solved in
WORD.

You can remove fonts:
Navigarte to your application folder>font book there you select the font you
want to remove and do file>remove

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi

I think I have heard that if I remove some fonts Word will have better
performance. Maybe starting the program, working in the program and closing
it.

That's true. The less fonts there are, the less fonts will have to be loaded
by Word or other applications, so you should definitely notice a speed
improvement.

If that is true:
1. how do I know which fonts I can remove?

A Microsoft employee posted this list:

Arial
Batang
Gulim
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3
Lucida Grande
MS PMincho
MS Gothic
MS Mincho
MS Pgothic
MT Extra
PmingLiu
Simsun
Symbol
Times New Roman
Verdana
Wingding

Office will need all these fonts in order to function properly, so don't
remove or disable any of these.

2. how do I know which locations to remove them from?

Follow little_creature's advice and use Apple's own Font Book. In addition
to that, I'd recommend *disabling* fonts prior to removing them. If you
disable fonts, they will still be on your hard drive, but they won't be
loaded. That way, you can keep them around for a couple of days, simply to
make sure that these fonts are not needed by other applications you may not
have thought of. If, after a couple of days, you have not encountered any
problems, it should be safe to remove them for good.

Also, after disabling some fonts, you should restart your Mac to flush the
font caches created by the system. The first time you launch Word after the
restart should take slightly longer, as it will optimise the font menu
performance, but after that, it should launch faster than before.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

 

[little_creature]

Hi,
Looking down for that fonts, I would be a bit carefull as some of them are
snadard on PC, removing them could cause campatibility issue problems.
But that's only my opinion

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi,

you're right, which is why I wrote

Office will need all these fonts in order to function properly, so don't
remove or disable any of these.

just below that list. That list is not a list of fonts which you *can*
remove, it's a list of fonts which you should, under no circumstances,
remove if you want to keep using Office.

Hi,
Looking down for that fonts, I would be a bit carefull as some of them are
snadard on PC, removing them could cause campatibility issue problems.
But that's only my opinion

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

 

[little_creature]

I see, sorry

Hi,

you're right, which is why I wrote


just below that list. That list is not a list of fonts which you *can*
remove, it's a list of fonts which you should, under no circumstances,
remove if you want to keep using Office.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Yes, if you insert it as a linked image, otherwise, no.

If you insert it as a linked image, toggle your field codes to see the full
path to the image.

If you insert it as an embedded image, you are looking at the "original",
the only picture Word knows about is now in the document

If I want to embed the image and retain the file name, I use a three-row one
column table. The first row contains the image. The second row contains
the path and file name in hidden text. The third row contains the caption.

That way, the second row acts as a spacer between the image and its caption.
It is important to hide the "text" of the path but not the end of cell mark
when using this method, otherwise the second row collapses giving zero
space.

Cheers


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Is there somewhere in Microsoft Word where you can see the name of the
image file you inserted? I can't believe that once an image in inserted
into a page, there's no way of knowing the name of the file to refer to
in case it needs to be revised.

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Carter Crain]

Thanks for the information

Hi




That's true. The less fonts there are, the less fonts will have to be loaded
by Word or other applications, so you should definitely notice a speed
improvement.


A Microsoft employee posted this list:

Arial
Batang
Gulim
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3
Lucida Grande
MS PMincho
MS Gothic
MS Mincho
MS Pgothic
MT Extra
PmingLiu
Simsun
Symbol
Times New Roman
Verdana
Wingding

Office will need all these fonts in order to function properly, so don't
remove or disable any of these.


Follow little_creature's advice and use Apple's own Font Book. In addition
to that, I'd recommend *disabling* fonts prior to removing them. If you
disable fonts, they will still be on your hard drive, but they won't be
loaded. That way, you can keep them around for a couple of days, simply to
make sure that these fonts are not needed by other applications you may not
have thought of. If, after a couple of days, you have not encountered any
problems, it should be safe to remove them for good.

Also, after disabling some fonts, you should restart your Mac to flush the
font caches created by the system. The first time you launch Word after the
restart should take slightly longer, as it will optimise the font menu
performance, but after that, it should launch faster than before.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Carter:

Much discussion continues about this. Nobody seems ever to put it in
perspective Let me try...

1) If you have fewer than 200 fonts active, then whatever is causing your
slowness, that's not it. Around 1-200 fonts is the average working set
these days.

2) If you have more than a thousand fonts loaded, you are burning memory.
Do that only if you are a graphics professional handling lots of little jobs
in a day that all need different fonts. And fill your box up with memory to
cope

3) All laptops are slow, and PowerBooks are slower than most I know
this because I am writing to you from an iBook. So don't tell me about
slow... Laptops have very slow disks (usually 4,500 rpm as opposed to
15,000 rpm on a graphics workstation) and slow motherboards (130 MHz as
opposed to 800 MHz). Your processor is running at 867 MHz, something that
seriously moves Word along will run three times as fast.

OK, that's the bad news. What can we do about it? The first and most
obvious thing is to stop applications you are not actively using. While you
leave them minimised, they are still occupying memory, still using a small
trickle of CPU. If you quit them, you get the memory and CPU cycles back to
use on the applications you are currently using.

Next, try rebooting your computer whenever it's convenient. I work all day
on a laptop at work: I reboot it every night as I leave work. That way, it
has done all its internal cleaning up of its memory and hard disk and it's
ready to run at full speed next morning.

Lastly, you could think about adding memory to your computer. If you can
lift it to a gig of memory, Word will run a bit faster.

Hope this helps

I think I have heard that if I remove some fonts Word will have better
performance. Maybe starting the program, working in the program and closing
it.

If that is true:
1. how do I know which fonts I can remove?
2. how do I know which locations to remove them from?

I have OS X 10.4.5 on 12" powerbook with 867 MHz and 640 MB ram.

I use Word 2004 v 11.2.3

Thanks

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410