Edit Picture using Control menu

[mlm]

In Office 2004 for Mac, I could Control-click on a picture and get a secondary menu that included Edit Picture. Where did it go? How do I manipulate the picture outside the text/margin constraints?

(By clicking Edit Picture in 2004, a new window would open allowing me to edit the image. Afterwards, I would copy the picture, close the document, go back to the original document, delete the old picture and replace it with the new copied version. Then I could move it around anywhere I wanted.)

 

[CyberTaz]

If I understand you correctly it sounds like you're going 'round Robin
Hood's barn The process you describe is the hard way to go if all you
want to be able to do is move the picture. Select it then use the Wrapping
options on the Formatting Palette to select *anything* other than In Line
with Text.

Alternatively, Control-Click the picture & select Format Picture> Layout to
access more features to help with maintaining placement of floating
graphics.

If I've missed the boat please give us a clearer description of what you
want to do. Since you don't mention anything about actually changing the
content of the picture I get the impression that you were simply copying an
In Line image and it was getting pasted in with the default Text Wrapping
applied as a "side-effect". However, I believe "Edit Picture" is [for the
most part] a thing of the past in 2008, anyway.

 

[John McGhie]

In Office 2008, they removed the ability. Office 2008 does not contain a
raster graphics editor.

Sorry about that. Maybe next version.

In the meantime, grab a copy of OmniGraffle, and you may never go back to
editing pictures in Office again

Cheers

In Office 2004 for Mac, I could Control-click on a picture and get a secondary
menu that included Edit Picture. Where did it go? How do I manipulate the
picture outside the text/margin constraints?

(By clicking Edit Picture in 2004, a new window would open allowing me to edit
the image. Afterwards, I would copy the picture, close the document, go back
to the original document, delete the old picture and replace it with the new
copied version. Then I could move it around anywhere I wanted.)

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[Jason Andersen [MSFT]]

As Bob says, it sounds like you simply want to change the wrapping of the
image. Follow his suggestions and a whole new world opens up to you.

As for the "Edit Picture" feature, I've seen a few other people ask about
what happened to it, and I'm sorry to say that its demise was an unfortunate
by product of the move away from Quickdraw (which Apple has deprecated -
meaning at some point it won't exist in the OS anymore), and the use of the
new CoreGraphics engine that Apple has moved to.

Since the Edit Picture function was reliant on Quickdraw, and CoreGraphics
doesn't have any similar type of API (yet, keep your fingers crossed), we
unfortunately had to cut it.

- Jason

 

[John McGhie]

Thanks Jason:

Well, we're going to be climbing all over you until we get raster graphics
editing back

You wouldn't believe how often corporate workers need to crop a graphic, and
being able to do it in-place in Word is soooo convenient

I should of course have mentioned to the customer that Apple's Preview will
allow very basic raster graphics editing. I was half-asleep...

Cheers

As Bob says, it sounds like you simply want to change the wrapping of the
image. Follow his suggestions and a whole new world opens up to you.

As for the "Edit Picture" feature, I've seen a few other people ask about
what happened to it, and I'm sorry to say that its demise was an unfortunate
by product of the move away from Quickdraw (which Apple has deprecated -
meaning at some point it won't exist in the OS anymore), and the use of the
new CoreGraphics engine that Apple has moved to.

Since the Edit Picture function was reliant on Quickdraw, and CoreGraphics
doesn't have any similar type of API (yet, keep your fingers crossed), we
unfortunately had to cut it.

- Jason

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia

 

[Jason Andersen [MSFT]]

No doubt! I can understand being sleepy... I didn't realize it until after I
posted last night it was after midnight!

Please I encourage everyone to continue sending feedback in using the Help >
Send feedback menu in the Office apps. It definitely does help us to
determine where things need to be changed, or re-added.

By the way, I'm sure you were just stating the cropping thing as an example,
but you don't need to have a raster editor to crop a picture. We have a crop
tool available via the Picture pane on the Formatting Palette that will
allow you to crop a picture. Just select your picture, and then select the
Crop tool. Drag any of the crop handles that are on the picture to crop it.
You can also input specific crop values via the Format Picture dialog for
even more fine tuned control.

- Jason