I cant see floating pictures

[Wurbler]

When I insert a picture into a Word document and amend the format for it to
be floating, the picture box is there but the actual picture disappears.
It appears to be totally random (ie. not a specific type of file) and its
dirivng me crazy!
Is there any help out there??
Wurbler

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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When I insert a picture into a Word document and amend the format for it to
be floating, the picture box is there but the actual picture disappears.
It appears to be totally random (ie. not a specific type of file) and its
dirivng me crazy!
Is there any help out there??

Version of Word? In which view is this happening? What are you seeing in place
of the picture?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Wayne Veale]

I hate to respond for Wurbler, but I have same problem with WORD 2003. I
cannot see the pic when I paste it, or when I load the document. I can see
the "handles" around it but thats all. I have the options setting DRAWINGS
checked and PICTURE PLACEHOLDER unchecked. Still does not work.
WWV

 

[garfield-n-odie]

A few things to try:
1. In Word, if you're working in Normal view, then switch to
Print Layout view (View | Print Layout), because objects that are
formatted as "float over text" (Word 97) or as something other
than "inline with text" (Word 2002 and 2003) are not visible in
Normal view.
2. In Word, click on Tools | Options | View tab | check the
"Drawings" box and uncheck the "Picture placeholders" box | Print
tab | check the "Drawing objects" box | OK.
3. If neither of the previous suggestions fixes the problem,
then try reducing the hardware acceleration setting in Start |
Control Panel | Display | Advanced | Troubleshooting. If this
fixes the problem, then you might want to check the website of
the manufacturer of your video card/graphics adapter to see if
there is an updated driver available.

 

[Ginch]

Garfield, I have been checking back to see any other suggestions besides the
one you suggested, it works but computer graphic comes out slower now
especially in Coreldraw. Download ATI latest driver only work for a period of
time, I done that 3 times over the past year, latest Dec 25. I have ATI 9600
graphic card, WIndow XP SP2, Office 2003 (tried XP), LCD with 12ms(tried
CRT), 1GB ram. 1. ATI tech support tried to resolve this issue from Dec 04
through Jan 05, no solution, they said it is MS problem, MS took over till
Feb 05, told to remove Adobe Acrobat 6, known issue conflict with SP2, I did,
but no fix and they have no solution. 2. Reinstalled Office and Window, no
fix. 3. Took your advise, turn down the acceleration setting and disabled all
DirectX, it works but computer seems a little slower. 4.Then Downloaded new
ATI drivers and able to turn acceleration back to high, only worked for
awhile, problem reoccured, still having problem from time to
time. When it happens, need to close all office application, and reopen word
first, if no go, restart computer. I think is SP2 problem.

 

[Dave]

I have the same problem and it all started after I installed SP2.

Checking and unchecking in Tools/Option/View does not help ...

It drives me crazy !