imbedded images stripped of information

[MikeG]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I last week upgraded to Office 2008. I plan to today return to at least Word 2004. This new version treats imbedded graphics differently than previously. I am a chemistry professor and I have hundreds of documents that contain imbedded images created with a program called ChemDraw. It draws chemical structures. In the past I've been able to copy them from word, paste back into chemdraw and modify them. Now if a file has been opened by Word 2008, all of the information in the graphic has been stripped and it is only an image that cannot be manipulated. This is a disaster!

The current configuration will force me to keep a separate file for each and every image that is imbedded in my document. Ridiculous!

Does anyone know if there is a work around for this?

Separately, can I use Word 2004 with the rest of the Office 2008 components?

Thanks,
Mike G

 

[MikeG]

p.s. who can I contact to formally complain about this change?

 

[Phillip Jones]

Go to Help menu and choose send feedback.

when feedback Page fill out then explain your exact problem. How you
think it should work and why you need it fixed.

p.s. who can I contact to formally complain about this change?

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