Word 2002, pictures, hardware acceleration

[scooby]

I have a P4 3.4GHz EE, Windows XP SP2, with the ATI x800xt video card.

When I insert a picture (either from a file on my hard-drive, or from
the internet) into a Word 2002 document - the picture is invisible -
only its placeholder (outline) is shown.

The picture is shown only after I minimize, and then maximize the word
document.

But when I scroll through the document - the picture disappears.

I have to minimize and then maximize the document to see the picture
again.

Doing a google search - the only fix which works is to lower the
hardware acceleration significantly in my video card's ATI catalyst
control panel, to "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D
accelerations..", which is bad for games.

Is there any other fix for this problem?


N.B.

1. I have made sure there is no tick in "picture placeholders" from
the tools-options-view menu.

2. Pictures are inserted and displayed NORMALLY, even with FULL
hardware acceleration, in both " Open Office ", and " AbiWord " ,
which are freeware versions of Microsoft Word.

So the problem seems to be with the Microsoft Word program itself; and
not with ATI or hardware acceleration

 

[Brod]

Just a guess but:

Try TOOLS > OPTIONS > VIEW and check to see if 'Print and Web Layout
Options' has 'Show Drawings' ticked.