Vanishing Word Photos.

[davec]

Here's what happened. Despite some difficulties in Word 2004 finagling
a fairly complex page layout, including several photos, the thing came
out real nice. I saved the document, only a one page affair.

The next day was "cleanup" time. I opened a utility called Onyx which
runs various maintenance scripts and trashes various caches. (I'm not
sure whether this is relevant.)

Today, I opened my beautiful document and found the text was all there
as it's supposed to be but all the photos were absent. Instead of each
picture there was only a thin line border where each would have been.
Vanished, all but the outline of each.

Any ideas what might have happened? More important, am I out of luck or
can something still be done? Thanks to anyone with ideas.

Dave

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Word>Preferences>View and uncheck Image placeholders

Here's what happened. Despite some difficulties in Word 2004 finagling
a fairly complex page layout, including several photos, the thing came
out real nice. I saved the document, only a one page affair.

The next day was "cleanup" time. I opened a utility called Onyx which
runs various maintenance scripts and trashes various caches. (I'm not
sure whether this is relevant.)

Today, I opened my beautiful document and found the text was all there
as it's supposed to be but all the photos were absent. Instead of each
picture there was only a thin line border where each would have been.
Vanished, all but the outline of each.

Any ideas what might have happened? More important, am I out of luck or
can something still be done? Thanks to anyone with ideas.

Dave

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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[davec]

Thanks John,

That did it! For some reason I'd decided to look at my Word preferences
a few days ago and checked/unchecked some of those boxes, whatever
looked like something I'd need or not. Who knew that the designation of
that particular preference really had something to do with those
photos? Certainly, not obvious to the casual reader.

Dave

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Dave:

If you hover your cursor over each of the checkboxes in Preferences, the
descriptive text below tells you what it does.

Word is the most powerful and complex word-processor on the planet: you have
now discovered that it's not a good idea to change things until you know
what they do

One thing Microsoft is particularly weak on is describing what the
"side-effects" of an alteration are. For example, they will tell you that
you can choose to "Send to" a document as "HTML, or as "An Attachment".

What they DON'T tell you (and they should...) is that HTML can't describe
all of the things in a Word document, so if you choose that option you will
lose things such as the headers and footers

Cheers

Thanks John,

That did it! For some reason I'd decided to look at my Word preferences
a few days ago and checked/unchecked some of those boxes, whatever
looked like something I'd need or not. Who knew that the designation of
that particular preference really had something to do with those
photos? Certainly, not obvious to the casual reader.

Dave

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Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410