Deleting Imported Graphics

[Steve Stevens]

I have some documents created with Word97 that have
imported Visio diagrams in them.

Now that I've updated to Word2002 (Office XP), the
graphics cannot be deleted. I can select them and move
them around, but cannot cut them out entirely.

Any suggestions?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Steve,

What happens when you select the graphic and use the
delete key or ctrl+X? Are you getting an error message?


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I have some documents created with Word97 that have
imported Visio diagrams in them.

Now that I've updated to Word2002 (Office XP), the
graphics cannot be deleted. I can select them and move
them around, but cannot cut them out entirely.

Any suggestions? >>

 

[Steve]

No error messages. The graphic just sits there, still
marked for selection. It does, by the way, go to the
clipboard--like a copy would.

-----Original Message-----
Hi Steve,

What happens when you select the graphic and use the
delete key or ctrl+X? Are you getting an error message?


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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are they linked? If so (or if you think this is possible), press Alt+F9 to
display the field code and then see if you can delete that.

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[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Steve,

The graphic is not
linked. But I tried it anyway, just in case--still no
delete.

I'd say something is wrong with how Word is managing these.
I'm guessing it's not storing them as graphics, but as OLE
objects. I take it the problem is only with Visio diagrams
in a Visio format?

Is this happening in any document, even a new, blank one?
Or is it specific to a particular file or set of files?

Does it matter at all if Visio is running or closed?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Steve,

So having Visio running/not running didn't matter?

See if saving the file as a Word web page or as
an RTF file, then closing Word, reopening and
saving those documents back to a new named DOC
file helps.

If not, you can zip and email me one of the .doc files
that has the problem to see if it does the same thing
here.

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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it with new blank
documents and everything is fine.

I think it has something to do with the pasted format of
Word97 being treated differently in Word2002. I just
haven't been able to figure out how to fix it.

I've got lots of these documents (over 80) and would hate
to have to manually recreate them. >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Steve,

Ahhh. Good catch

FWIW, in Word 2003 the Word 97 track changes options
dialog choices for formatting/delete etc are back <g>

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Bob,

Guess what I stumbled on this morning? It's related to
the Track Changes option. I need to use this option,
since I'm editing controlled documents that must show the
changes in the revised version.

If I set it on, the only way to have the "deletes" take
during the edit is to set the display option to "Final";
and this does't show the adds. If the display is set
to "Final Showing Markups", the adds can be seen, but the
deletes stay put.

In Word97, I could choose what to show (add, deletes,
formating, etc.). In Word2002, I don't have the same
choices, especially concerning deletes. I'll do a little
more looking around the knowledge base to see if this can
be changed.

Thanks, Bob and the others, for your suggestions.

Steve >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*