Office 2003 Pictures not compatible with Office 2008 Mac

[NewMacUser]

I'm using MS Office Mac 2008. Rest of company using PC/Windows and MS Office
2003. When I view corp documents (PowerPoint, Word), some of the pictures in
the document are formatted incorrectly. I don't know the source of the
picture but it is some sort of bitmap image (jpg, gif, bmp). Displays
correctly on PC and Office 2003.

When I open these files with MS Office Mac 2008, some of these pictures
display properly, but many others are zoomed/cropped. Happens with both
PowerPoint and Word. I can right click on the picture, and choose "format
picture" so Office sees it as some sort of bitmap.

For example, by zoomed/cropped... the original picture may be 1" x 2", no
background color, and exist on 2 different slides in MS PowerPoint 2003. In
Office Mac Powerpoint 2008, the picture appears correctly on 1 slide, but on
the other slide it shows just the upper/right corner of the image, expanded
to the same size, 1" x 2", and now it's pixelated with a white background.

This happens often, so it is a real hassle to have to delete the original
image and try to re-insert it. I frequently present using corp or others
ppt's and edit word documents, and this is preventing me from migrating to
all-mac ;-)

Any ideas?

 

[John McGhie]

There are a series of known bugs with Office 2008's abilities to handle
Office PC files.

Microsoft is working on these.

First, make sure you have Updates 12.1 and 12.1.1 applied. These contain
fixes for some of the issues.

If these updates do not solve all of your problems, then you will either
have to install Windows Office on your Mac, or wait a little longer for the
fixes.

You can purchase a program named Parallels that will enable you to run
Windows Office on your Mac.

Hope this helps

I'm using MS Office Mac 2008. Rest of company using PC/Windows and MS Office
2003. When I view corp documents (PowerPoint, Word), some of the pictures in
the document are formatted incorrectly. I don't know the source of the
picture but it is some sort of bitmap image (jpg, gif, bmp). Displays
correctly on PC and Office 2003.

When I open these files with MS Office Mac 2008, some of these pictures
display properly, but many others are zoomed/cropped. Happens with both
PowerPoint and Word. I can right click on the picture, and choose "format
picture" so Office sees it as some sort of bitmap.

For example, by zoomed/cropped... the original picture may be 1" x 2", no
background color, and exist on 2 different slides in MS PowerPoint 2003. In
Office Mac Powerpoint 2008, the picture appears correctly on 1 slide, but on
the other slide it shows just the upper/right corner of the image, expanded
to the same size, 1" x 2", and now it's pixelated with a white background.

This happens often, so it is a real hassle to have to delete the original
image and try to re-insert it. I frequently present using corp or others
ppt's and edit word documents, and this is preventing me from migrating to
all-mac ;-)

Any ideas?

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[CyberTaz]

Not contradicting anything John had to offer, but it is often a mater of how
the images were handled in the first place. Far to often people rely on
copy/paste from whatever source they can find, then edit the image in Word.

Although the result of that method usually continues to "work" within the
same OS it has a tendency to implode if the doc gets passed
cross-platform... And often happens even within the same environment.

If images are properly prepared & saved in the appropriate file formats
using a decent image editor, then Inserted into the document (Insert>
Picture) and not modified using the minimalist "tools" a word processing
program has to offer, stability of the image/document is far more reliable -
cross-platform or not

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

 

[cwilliams1]

I'm using MS Office Mac 2008. Rest of company using PC/Windows and MS Office

 

[John McGhie]

If you *did* know where the problem is, then you would know that this is a
known bug in Office 2008. Nothing you do on the PC side is likely to make
much difference, although if you do what Bob suggested, you will have a lot
more success.

I think I may know where the problem is. You stated in your letter that
everyone else (co-workers) are using MS 2003 and you are using MS 2008. I see
a BIG difference there. Because Office 2003 is "older" than Office 2008,
therefore, some pictures may not show up correctly. You may want to suggest to
them to upgrade their software to Office 2007 so that way, when they do send
you attachments with pictures they should come in as they were sent.

This is worth a try.

Beg to differ. Office 2008 has just as much trouble with 2007 graphics.
You would be spending a lot of money ($500 a seat) for nothing.

Cheers

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]