insert/paste image preferences

[cobma]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Processor: Intel I have set up a template in Word 2008 for some scientists to use. The insert/paste pictures preference is set up as 'in line with text', but the documents that images are being pasted from are not, which means that when the scientists paste in the images, the wrapping is incorrect.

I have told them how to manually fix this, but I'm trying to minimise the amount of formatting they have to do to the document as they still haven't fully bought in to the idea of using text styles etc. Is there anything I could do to get my preference to override the incorrect wrapping preference of the images they're pasting in? The same problem applies to tables as well.

Many thanks.

 

[CyberTaz]

Templates do not store the overwhelming majority of Preferences... Only
those few which are document specific. That particular pref isn't document
specific, it is a global setting stored in the individual user's Preferences
file. It can't be controlled by the template or by an individual document.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[cobma]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for your reply.

I can change my own preferences to 'in line with text', but even then, if I paste in an image from a document that was previously 'in front of text', it ignores my preference and pastes it in 'in front of text'.

Any ideas?

 

[CyberTaz]

The reason is that when you copy the image you're copying its formatting as
well. The formatting is retained as a property of what you're pasting
because it is a Word formatting attribute. The only viable options are to
change the Wrapping before copying or after pasting.

The Options setting doesn't apply because technically you're not pasting
'picture', you're pasting a MS Office Graphic Object.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[cobma]

Hi Bob,

Thanks again. It's a shame, as I suspect just one little extra task, like changing the wrapping, is enough for people who don't use Word all the time to think it's all too complicated!

Maddy

 

[Rob Schneider]

Word is complicated. It is a sophisticated tools for authors and
writers. It's marketed differently, of course.

Turn on the little paragraph markers to help you "see" what's going on.


--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Rob:

Interesting: Airbus has been marketing its planes for some time as being
"easy to fly" because they're all automatic.

Bean-counters and lawyers, whose comprehension is often limited, at airlines
have started to believe them. They have produced instructions that the
pilots must operate on automatic all the time.

Now, Airbus has had to rush out a warning saying there is a danger that
pilots are forgetting how to FLY! And it's true: a First Officer on a
long-haul airliner might only "fly" the aircraft for two hours a year.

The pilots are there to take over when things go wrong. If the autopilot
gets overwhelmed it will suddenly switch off. This is a very bad time to
discover that the pilot has forgotten how to fly.

We have the same problem, only much more so, with Word. Word has been so
automatic for so long that an entire generation of users has grown up never
learning how to actually use it manually. So when "things go wrong" they
have no idea whee to start...

Back in the days of WordPerfect, we would not even be discussing this issue,
because users were accustomed to, and skilled at, leaping into the codes and
fixing it up themselves...

Cheers

Word is complicated. It is a sophisticated tools for authors and
writers. It's marketed differently, of course.

Turn on the little paragraph markers to help you "see" what's going on.


--rms

www.rmschneider.com

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