Inserting graphics into Office Mac 2004

[safetyfirst2001us]

When in Word and I select "Insert" then "Picture" and navigate to a
folder of graphics/pictures, all I see are icons. I find it difficult
to know what to select. How can I set Word to display thumbnails of
the pictures/graphics so I can see what to select? I have adjusted
folder views to view graphics as thumbnails. This occurs in both Mac-
Pages and Office products. Is this an Apple thing or an adjustment
thing? Thanks!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

In the dialog where you navigate/browse for the picture, make sure that
the Column View (upper left corner) is enabled. Then when you see an
icon, click the icon itself, and if necessary, drag the scroll bar to
see the next column to the right in the Column View. Then OS X should
generate a preview of it. The down arrow key will let you skim through
a folder, updating the preview each time.

I'm not sure what determines when the icon is a thumbnail and when it's
not, but the workaround above works for me.

 

[Elliott Roper]

I'm not sure what determines when the icon is a thumbnail and when it's
not, but the workaround above works for me.

To add to this part of your excellent advice:

A file may or may not have a thumbnail for its icon. It depends on what
made the file and how. Whether a picture has a thumbnail icon has
nothing to do with Office.

If you wish to create thumbnail icons for existing pictures that lack
them, one excellent method is to use GraphicConverter. It is shareware,
available from lemkesoft.de
Among thousands of other graphics tricks, it can remove the little
snivellers too. That is useful when posting pictures on the web or
e-mailing them, particularly to the dark side.

 

[safetyfirst2001us]

This works perfectly! Thank you very much! I just knew there had to be
a way to see a preview of the graphic! Mac Rocks!