Pasting Enhanced Metafiles with Office 2003

[Donahue]

My office uses a report template in Word and I regularly
pastes tables from Excel into the template (pasting
special as an enhaced metafile).

However, since we recently upgraded to Office 2003,I am
having trouble with such pasting.

Now, when I copy and paste special all I am able to see in
the Word template is the very bottom row of the table. I
can click on it and move it around and re-size it, but it
does not show up on screen. It also does not show up on
print preview, but it DOES show up when I print out a hard
copy.

A few other things to note:

(1) I can successfully paste and enhanced metafile into a
blank Word document (not the template) and see it just
fine.

(2) I was able to successfully paste metafiles into the
report template on a colleague's computer, using Office
2000. I saved that copy of the report to our network and
then opened the file on my machine, using Office 2003. I
could then see the tables. But when I then tried to being
another table in, I had the same problem again.

If anyone knows what the problem is and how to work around
it, I'd appreciate your help.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Donahue,

Just guessing, here... but perhaps the template has become
slightly damaged. That, or your graphics card driver may be
glitching. Or perhaps a combination of the two

Since you say it works fine in new documents, you might try
recreating the template. Use copy/Paste to bring across
everything EXCEPT the last paragraph mark to a new document
and see if that works any better?

However, since we recently upgraded to Office 2003,I am
having trouble with such pasting.

Now, when I copy and paste special all I am able to see in
the Word template is the very bottom row of the table. I
can click on it and move it around and re-size it, but it
does not show up on screen. It also does not show up on
print preview, but it DOES show up when I print out a hard
copy.

A few other things to note:

(1) I can successfully paste and enhanced metafile into a
blank Word document (not the template) and see it just
fine.

(2) I was able to successfully paste metafiles into the
report template on a colleague's computer, using Office
2000. I saved that copy of the report to our network and
then opened the file on my machine, using Office 2003. I
could then see the tables. But when I then tried to being
another table in, I had the same problem again.

If anyone knows what the problem is and how to work around
it, I'd appreciate your help.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Hi. Thanks for the suggestions, but unfortunately they did
not do the trick.

The problem is happening on multiple machines in the
office, so I don't think it's the graphics card driver.

I tried re-creating the template as you suggested, but
that did not take care of the problem.

Thanks anyway.