Picture quality in Word PLEASE HELP

[daysleeper]

Hi can some help me please!

I am writing my PhD thesis- I orignally made my figures in Microsoft
powerpoint and pasted them as a picture into Word which automatically
scales them. Everything was great until I bought a new mac book,
which has the Microsoft word 2004 software... when I try and cut and
paste the figures from powerpoint into this version of word, the
figures become very grainy and when u print them the quality is really
bad.. please please please does anyome know how to change the quality
of the figures.. otherwise im going to have to remake all my figures-
which will put me back months.. PLEASE HELP.

to make things worse, if u try and open the powerpoint file containing
the figures on an older version of powerpoint, it just goes mad, and
messes it up even more..

is anyone else having the same problem..

please, please, please does anyone know how to correct this..

thanks

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi can some help me please!

I am writing my PhD thesis- I orignally made my figures in Microsoft
powerpoint and pasted them as a picture into Word which automatically
scales them. Everything was great until I bought a new mac book,
which has the Microsoft word 2004 software... when I try and cut and
paste the figures from powerpoint into this version of word, the
figures become very grainy and when u print them the quality is really
bad..

Did you do a Paste Special to paste as picture?? I've only seen this
with a regular copy/paste between Word and PPT.

please please please does anyome know how to change the quality
of the figures.. otherwise im going to have to remake all my figures-
which will put me back months.. PLEASE HELP.

to make things worse, if u try and open the powerpoint file containing
the figures on an older version of powerpoint, it just goes mad, and
messes it up even more..

Are the figures just made of PPT objects (circles, squares, arrows lines
and text for instance). Some of the objects might not be supported in
earlier version of PPT. You could run the "Sompatibility" checker to
assess that.


Corentin

 

[RobG]

Hi can some help me please!

I am writing my PhD thesis- I orignally made my figures in Microsoft
powerpoint and pasted them as a picture into Word which automatically
scales them.

Which versions of Word and Powerpoint were you using? Did you get a
choice of "Picture" to paste? You may have been able to select
"Windows Metafile" or "Enhanced Metafile".

Everything was great until I bought a new mac book,
which has the Microsoft word 2004 software... when I try and cut and
paste the figures from powerpoint into this version of word, the

Are these the same files that you simply copied onto the MacBook and
then opened in Word 2004, or are they new files that you created from
scratch on your MacBook?

Do the files that you'd previously copied into the document look OK
and it's just the new ones that look crappy, or do they all turn to
junk?

figures become very grainy and when u print them the quality is really
bad.. please please please does anyome know how to change the quality
of the figures.. otherwise im going to have to remake all my figures-
which will put me back months.. PLEASE HELP.

It might be related to a number of things, sorry for all the questions
up above but MS keep changing how things work. It may be a
consequence of your printer driver - what kind of printer do you
have? Does it use Postscript, PCL, or some other langugage? You
might be able to tell from the driver or printer name.

Do the pictures look awful on the screen, or just in print preview and
when printed?

to make things worse, if u try and open the powerpoint file containing
the figures on an older version of powerpoint, it just goes mad, and
messes it up even more..

Par for the course there, MS are terrible at making their files
compatible with older versions of their software. Other software
vendors seem to be much better at it - it is the source of many
"forced upgrade" conspiracy theories.

I've just created some files in Office 2003 (Windows), I'll play with
them in Word 2004 and see what happens. I can also try Office 2000
later...

 

[little_creature]

Which versions of Word and Powerpoint were you using? Did you get a
choice of "Picture" to paste? You may have been able to select
"Windows Metafile" or "Enhanced Metafile".


Are these the same files that you simply copied onto the MacBook and
then opened in Word 2004, or are they new files that you created from
scratch on your MacBook?

Do the files that you'd previously copied into the document look OK
and it's just the new ones that look crappy, or do they all turn to
junk?



It might be related to a number of things, sorry for all the questions
up above but MS keep changing how things work. It may be a
consequence of your printer driver - what kind of printer do you
have? Does it use Postscript, PCL, or some other langugage? You
might be able to tell from the driver or printer name.

Do the pictures look awful on the screen, or just in print preview and
when printed?



Par for the course there, MS are terrible at making their files
compatible with older versions of their software. Other software
vendors seem to be much better at it - it is the source of many
"forced upgrade" conspiracy theories.

I've just created some files in Office 2003 (Windows), I'll play with
them in Word 2004 and see what happens. I can also try Office 2000
later...

Hello,
I suspect you did tour picures on PC. When writing part of my PhD I wanted
to speed things up so I made simple line pictures on PC, then open on MAC
and very nice words came out my mouth.

The way how to workaround that quickly was to open thatfile with pictures on
PC, save every single picture as tiff and then back paste to word. By this I
had PC and mac version pretty similar. However, the pictures was fine in
the original size but could not be enlarged, so next time I will use
different way to prepare the picture (I know it was not *clear* way but I
wanted to speed things)