Graphics not shown perfectly, non-editable

[Wai]

Product: MS Word 2002

** What I did **
- In "Print Layout" Mode
- unselect "picture palceholder"

1.
** Graphics cracks!! **
- graphics just cracks when I scroll the screen and read
my documents. They are usually not shown appropriately -
only part of the graphics is shown, other is appeared as
blank!!

- my only solution (but not a good one) to it is:
view my document in "Web Layout" Mode.


- is what I encounter a kind of bugs in MS Word 2002?

2.
** Graphics non-editable **
- every graphic I left-click, the option of "edit
picture" is always greyed out. What's wrong?
Do I miss something to install?
How can I solve this problem?

 

[Bill]

With respect to the image "cracking," the problem sounds
similar to the scrolling problem discussed previously
(many times). See Image Display Problems, Shady, Oct. 2,
2003. The problem started happening for me when we
upgraded to Word 2002/Windows 2000. A lot of problems are
fixed by changing the Hardware Acceleration value: Control
Panel/Display/Settings/Advanced/Troubleshooting. On this
computer, setting the slider to tick 3 (number the ticks
1=None, 6=Full) solves most problems. Possibly the
earlier version of Word/Windows did not support the
greater hardware acceleration values -- that might explain
why the problem started showing up with the newer
software. This does not solve a problem that occurs
sometimes with large tif files - part of the image repeats
over and over near the bottom, like a scanning device
stuck on one part. It seems to be impossible to get Word
to refresh the image once it is stuck - if anyone finds a
good way to do this, please tell us. Sometimes resizing
the image or the document works, but when you go back to
the size you want, it still has the problem. The image
always prints correctly.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I too would like to know what to do about the TIFFs that (as you describe)
get "stuck" toward the bottom. They print fine, but it's frustrating not to
be able to view them properly. And I had another strange problem with an
LZW-compressed TIFF that insisted on blowing up to a very strange aspect
ratio.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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[Wai]

There is one solution to minimize this problem.
- save and close the files, then re-open it

If the problem still exists, there're still
some "temporary" solutions.
- resize the screen
- resize the picture
- open something which will open a mini-window within the
document (eg "Style & Formatting", "Reveal
Formatting", "Document Map")


The most convenient one should be the last method. Its
only disadvantage is boredom - you have to do it once
each time the problem occurs.

 

[Wai]

Try the following:
Deactivate/reduce as many "display-acceleration"
functions as possible before the problem solves. For
example:

- try to move the slider to "2" (or even "1" although it
is not recommended)

- try to deactivate "overwrite synthesis" (sorry, as my
computer has a non-English interface, I try to translate
its name into English, so the name may be wrong)

- try to deactivate any hardware acceleration functions
in your display drive.


Tell me if you make it!

 

[Bill]

Thanks for all the responses. This is a good discussion.
Relative to the image "stuck" problem, it seems to me that
I have closed a document and closed Word and then
restarted Word and opened the document and the image still
has the problem. After a reboot, the image was OK. It is
as if possibly Word maintains a cache of images that it
has already processed for display -- once an image gets
messed up in this cache, it stays messed up. If this were
the case, what is needed is a command that clears this
cache. If anyone can come up with a way to do this,
please respond.

The various actions that cause Word to redraw the image
(resize, maximize, etc., are useful, but a better way
would be desirable.

Does anyone know what Wai means by deactivate "overwrite
synthesis"?