No, not really. This is a well-known bug in Word X. The Red X simply means
"Unable to find the graphic". It's caused by Word being unable to read the
OLE store at the bottom of the document file. All of the important parts of
a document other than the text are hidden below the very last paragraph mark
in the file, in a large multi-part "store".
One thing you could try is to create a clean document:
1) Quite Word
2) Find your Normal Template and drag it to the desktop
3) Open Word and quite it (this creates a new Normal template)
4) Create a new blank document (which we now know is clean because it is
simply a copy of the Normal template, and we just made a new one of those)
5) CAREFULLY copy all except the very last paragraph mark from the bad
document
6) Paste it into the new document and save it under a different file name.
Try that. You will need to replace the pictures that were showing as red
X's, because Word would not be able to find them to copy them. Try always
to use Edit>Paste Special>As Picture. Pasting as any kind of "object"
makes the game harder and you are more likely to lose.
If there are now no red X's, the document is now fixed.
You will then have to run through and fix up the section formatting, which
will have been lost in the transfer.
Hope this helps
from said:
I have been trying to paste images into a fairly large
word document (OSX) and no matter which image format I
use it seems that the picture is Replaced with a large
red 'X' in the document. Can anyone help?
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