Double clicking red-cross pictures: "Word cannot edit the PowerPoint.Slide.8."

[MacWordXY]

I have a Word document created with Word v.X 10.1.4 (Office 10.1.5). It contains four pictures created with PowerPoint 10.1.5 on Mac OS X 10.2.8.

One picture shows OK, yet the other show as a red cross. When I double-click the red-cross icon, I get the error message: "Word cannot edit the PowerPoint.Slide.8."

How to fix the problem and show such pictures?

Thanks.

 

[John McGhie]

The picture is corrupt and Word cannot open it. Your quickest fix is to
delete the bad picture and put it in again.

If you send the document to a PC running Office 2002 or 2003, it may be able
to get that slide open.

I normally past PowerPoint slides in by using Edit>Paste Special>As Picture
to avoid this problem. Embedding a PowerPoint slide is a bit of a stretch
for the technology, and you often get this problem.

Hope this helps

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi XY,

Microsoft recently posted the following. Could it apply in this case?

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To all our MacWord X customers:
 
We have been receiving reports about the inability of Word X to display
graphics in certain documents, and instead showing a ³Red X². This is an
expected occurrence when the Word cannot display the graphic, due to lack of
memory, lack of a required graphic converter or corrupt image.

We have investigated the reports and have identified 2 scenarios where Red
X¹s would appear unexpectedly:
 
Problem: Documents created or modified in MacWord X display ³Red X¹s² when
opened up in Word version 2002 for Windows (or earlier).
Solution: Word version 2002 for Windows is currently missing a graphic
filter that enables it to display certain graphics added or modified in
MacWord X. This graphic filter will be available as part of a Service Pack
update from Office Update sometime after January 2004. This graphic filter
is already included as part of the Word 2003 for Windows install.
 
Problem: Documents opened in MacWord X will sometimes display graphics as
³Red X¹s².
Solution: We have identified a conflict with certain built-in & 3rd party
components and Word. Plug-ins such as ³Endnote² as well as built-in items
like ³Camera and Scanner Plug-in² will cause this issue when they are
loaded. Endnote is loaded automatically when Word is launched, while ³Camera
and Scanner Plug-in² loads when selecting it from the ³Insert | Picture²
sub-menu. This issue can also occur in Mac Word 2001.

In order to work-around this issue one must not load these plug-ins and
disable those that start automatically by temporarily removing them from the
³Microsoft Office X:Office:Startup:Word² folder. We currently do not have an
update to Word X that addresses this issue directly.

Another item to note is that if you run into either of these issues, the
integrity of the graphics will remain and even though Word will be unable to
display the images, they will be saved with the document correctly.

Matt Centurion
Macintosh Business Unit ­ Microsoft
(e-mail address removed) <mailto:[email protected]>
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Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

 

[MacWordXY]

Beth,

Absolutely right. Taking away the file "/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Office/Startup/Word/EndNote 7 CWYW Word X" did the trick. Thanks.

If possible, please get in touch with EndNote's developers to fix it.

Thanks.
Regards,

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi

It would probably be a lot more effective if EndNote customers contact
EndNote concerning this problem. Beth is very nice, but typically customers
have more influence over companies than anyone else does.

Here's the URL to contact EndNote:
http://www.endnote.com/encontact.asp

If you have been affected by this blip, please notify EndNote directly.

 

[MacWordXY]

Hi,

I have contacted EndNote (ISI Research Soft), but it seems that it is also a bug inside Word.

Regards,

 

[Simon Deroles]

I have a related problem using Word X. I am unable to see some
embedded images in Word Files from PC users running Word 97/98 (show
as red crosses). If I drag the offending images to the desktop they
show the extension ".pictclipping".
In addition if I import a graph from Excel X into Powerpoint X I can
see it fine on a Mac but it opens as a red X on a PC running
Powerpoint 2000.

Is there any solution to these problems

Cheers

Simon D

 

[John McGhie]

See Beth's post yesterday in the same thread.