Linked & Embedded Graphics do not update

[Margaret Becker]

I recently installed Word 2002 for XP. Since then,
graphics that are both linked and embedded (Insert menu:
Picture > From File > Insert & Link) do not update when
the image is changed and I press F9 or use Edit > Links >
Update Now.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you clicked on the linked graphic and pressed F9 to manually update it
after changing the source file?

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[Margaret Becker]

Yes, I am clicking the graphic and pressing F9. I have
also tried Edit > Links > (select graphic) and click
Update Now. This does not work either.

~Margaret Becker

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Margaret,

If you use Alt+F9 to toggle between the graphic display
and the field code when in Print=>Layout what is
the content of the field code of a graphic that will
not update? Between the {brace} characters?

What is the graphic file format and app you are using?
(I'm assuming you're replacing the same file with a
newer version on save from another app?

Does this happen in a brand new document as well as
in the problem one?

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Yes, they are all "inline" and it shows up in the list of
Edit > Links. It does not update with the "Update Now"
selection either. >>

 

[Margaret Becker]

-----Original Message-----
Hi Margaret,

If you use Alt+F9 to toggle between the graphic display
and the field code when in Print=>Layout what is
the content of the field code of a graphic that will
not update? Between the {brace} characters?

The expanded field looks like this:

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "Graphics/Polysurface-003.png" \*
MERGEFORMAT }

What is the graphic file format and app you are using?
(I'm assuming you're replacing the same file with a
newer version on save from another app?

PNG, and yes i'm replacing the same file with a newer
version.

Does this happen in a brand new document as well as
in the problem one?

I created a new document to experiment with this, and
guess what. Everything works as expected in the new
document.

Here's the clincher on this one - after making it work in
the new document (same Word session), it now works in the
old document as well. This is a stumper. But at least now
it's working, and I might be able to keep it working.
Maybe eventually I'll figure out what is causing the
problem.

Now I just have to figure out how to keep the images from
resizing when I do a "Save pictures in document"
and "Break links."

~Margaret Becker

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Margaret,

Hmmm and with the graphic selected using F9
doesn't update to the newer version? As it's
not happening in a new document this one may
be corrupted. You may want to try saving it
as a web page in Word or as RTF, closing Word
then reopening the file to see if it works.
Here are a couple of other things to check:

The only 'surprise' is that the field is
showing a forward slash rather than a double backslash
after the foldername.

Is this graphic stored on a file or on a website.

What is the build version of Word from Help=>About

If you change
Graphics/Polysurface-003.png
to
Graphics\\Polysurface-003.png
does the F9 update work?

Is Track changes turned on? (this one came up in
another thread today, so just to be sure <g>).

On the resizing, in what way are the graphics
resizing when you break the links (what wrapping
are you using and what view are you in).

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The expanded field looks like this:

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "Graphics/Polysurface-003.png" \*
MERGEFORMAT }

PNG, and yes i'm replacing the same file with a newer
version.

I created a new document to experiment with this, and
guess what. Everything works as expected in the new
document.

Here's the clincher on this one - after making it work in
the new document (same Word session), it now works in the
old document as well. This is a stumper. But at least now
it's working, and I might be able to keep it working.
Maybe eventually I'll figure out what is causing the
problem.

Now I just have to figure out how to keep the images from
resizing when I do a "Save pictures in document"
and "Break links."

~Margaret Becker>>

 

[Margaret Becker]

It looks like saving to .RTF has fixed the problem. About
half of my images resized doing this operation, but this
is a relatively small document for me (30 pages instead of
500), so I just fixed them. I am suspecting corruption now
caused by the previous crashing. I believe this was mostly
caused by an older version of Adobe PDF Maker.

I forgot to give my Word build number before:
Word 2002 (10.4524.4219) SP-2.

~Margaret