Problems with drawing pad in Office 2003

[wlauer]

I recently install handwriting recognition in Office 2003. After working
around the problems with Writing Pad introduced by Service Pack 3, I am still
left with one remaining issue. When I select Drawing Pad in the Language bar,
the drawing pad window pops up. I can draw in that window fine, but when I
select "Insert Drawing", I just get a blank image added to my Word document
(normal outline and resize handles are present, but no content). If I select
that placeholder in Word, the Drawing Pad will show me its content, but I can
never see it in the Word document itself. If I instead select "Copy to
Clipboard" in the drawing pad, and then paste into Word, I can get a bitmap
of my drawing, but that doesn't let me go back and revise it later. Any
suggestions for getting this working?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

A few things to try:
1. In Word, if you're working in Normal view, then switch to Print
Layout view (View | Print Layout), because objects that are formatted as
"float over text" (Word 97) or as something other than "inline with
text" (Word 2000, 2002, and 2003) are not visible in Normal view.
2. In Word, click on Tools | Options | View tab | check the
"Drawings" box and uncheck the "Picture placeholders" box | Print tab |
check the "Drawing objects" box | OK.
3. If neither of the previous suggestions fixes the problem, then
try reducing or turning off hardware acceleration in Start | Control
Panel | Display | Settings | Advanced | Troubleshoot. If this fixes the
problem, then you might want to check the website of the manufacturer of
your video card/graphics adapter to see if there is an updated driver
available.

 

[wlauer]

Thanks for the response. Unfortunantly, for #1 and #2, I had already tried
those (both were set as you had recomended). I just tried #3 (disabling
hardware acceleration) and it did not seem to affect the problem.