How do I exit Format Picture dialog when Cancel returns error?

[Dan]

In Word 2007 I selected a picture that's on a drawing canvas. I opened the
Format Picture dialog to check how much I had cropped to picture and maybe
reset the cropping. I clicked the Size tab which did not have the crop
settings. So I clicked the Picture tab to see if crop settings were there and
I get a message in a small window that says 'The measurement must be between
-22" and 22".' None of the settings on this tab are outside that range. I do
notice that under Original size it says the height is 32" and the width is
48", but I can't change those. I guess the picture was taken on an 8 or 10
megaixel digital camera, so maybe the original would seem to be that big.
I can understand that it might not want to let me click OK, but I get the
same error about the measurement when I click Cancel. I can't close the
dialog! Is there a way out of this? I'm thinking I'll have to kill Word to
get out and just lose my document edits.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dan,

If you get the message box saying 0" to 22" you can turn off the 'relative to original' box and then set both of the 'absolute'
sizes to zero to get out then ctrl+Z to reset. The -22" to 22" could be from a corrupted document or picture. This tends to happen
a bit more if the picture was pasted into the document rather than using Insert=>picture.

Was that picture the only thing in that drawing canvas? Were there other canvas/picture combinations in the document?

Was this document created in Word 2007 or an earlier version?

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In Word 2007 I selected a picture that's on a drawing canvas. I opened the
Format Picture dialog to check how much I had cropped to picture and maybe
reset the cropping. I clicked the Size tab which did not have the crop
settings. So I clicked the Picture tab to see if crop settings were there and
I get a message in a small window that says 'The measurement must be between
-22" and 22".' None of the settings on this tab are outside that range. I do
notice that under Original size it says the height is 32" and the width is
48", but I can't change those. I guess the picture was taken on an 8 or 10
megaixel digital camera, so maybe the original would seem to be that big.
I can understand that it might not want to let me click OK, but I get the
same error about the measurement when I click Cancel. I can't close the
dialog! Is there a way out of this? I'm thinking I'll have to kill Word to
get out and just lose my document edits. >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Johnny]

Howdy,

Did you find a way around this?

I just had this happen to a user that was adding an arrow to a document with
a picture in the drawing canvas. He didn't intend for the arrow to become
part of the canvas, but it did. He went to change the properties of the
arrow and got this annoying message.

The measurement must be between 0" and 4.14"

Couldn't cancel, could click ok, couldn't find any sizes to change to make
it agree. Had to kill winword.exe and lost all his work...and the autosave
didn't actually autosave.

Thanks
Johnny