Word 2003 - Won't Display Photos in Outlook Emails

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Fred

I choose to use Word 2003 as my email editor in Outlook. When i copy / paste
a message that contains photos i have inserted and sent, the photos are not
diplayed in the new email. I get a blank space and when i click on the space
it shows the outline of a rectangle the size of the photo. It must be a
security setting. Can you please help me correct this.

Fred
 
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JE McGimpsey

Fred said:
I choose to use Word 2003 as my email editor in Outlook. When i copy / paste
a message that contains photos i have inserted and sent, the photos are not
diplayed in the new email. I get a blank space and when i click on the space
it shows the outline of a rectangle the size of the photo. It must be a
security setting. Can you please help me correct this.

While someone here may be able to help, you may have better luck in a
newsgroup that isn't dedicated to Mac Word.
 
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little_creature

get a blank space and when i
Means broken image - is that image stored locally on your HDD? Can that be
just a temp file? Try to save that images to your HDD before composing new
message and then insert these locally copied to your message. Does that
solve the problem?
 
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Fred

Good morning

The original images are on the hard drive, & sometimes diagrams copied off
our website. However it could be the third or 4th time that i copy this email
and paste the contents into another email. I even store sent messages in my
draft folder and use this as a "template" for new messages. It is a new
problem since i changed to a new notebook (internet explorer 7).

ANy other ideas?

Fred
 
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Fred

Hi Bob

I am coping from sent emails in Outlook and pasting into a new email. I use
word 2003 as my email editor. The rectangular outlines appear in the new
email. The way around it is to not use word 2003 as the email editor, but
then i loose all the formating features and my document / quote does not look
professional.

Any ideas?

Fred
 
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John McGhie

Hi Fred:

Ah hah! That nails it :)

You can't do that :)

An Outlook "Folder" is not really a "folder", it's an attribute attached to
one or more messages within your Outlook database.

By design, your Outlook data store is designed to be secured against
attempts to read it from "outside" (including another email message). If
you are connected to an exchange server, most of the data resides in the
server itself and is not available even to yourself unless you are connected
to the server. As this protection is tightened up, mor and more things such
as this will stop working. It was a massively unsafe design which enabled
viruses to become the most expensive problem in computing.

If you want to save model emails, save them as Word Documents in a folder on
your local disk, with any images embedded in the documents. Wen you copy
those into an email, the text and images will be copied in as local
components in the email itself. Not only yourself but all your recipients
will then receive the components.

Of course, you should be very sparing with formatting and graphics you send
by email. The more of them you have in each email, the more likely the
recipient's Spam filter is to dump your message sight-unseen at the other
end. If you want the highest chance that a message gets through, sent it in
plain text, with no formatting, links, or graphics whatsoever.

Cheers

--

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs

+61 4 1209 1410, <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]
 
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Fred

Hi John

Thank you for this information.

I am now quoting in Word, then pdf the document and send it as an attachment
to my clients using Outlook.

It will also help me in reducing my pst folder size (currently over 3Gb).

The reason i questioned this "new behaviour" was because on my old notebook
(using word and outlook), i never had a problem (and can still cut and paste
photos from a sent email to a new email without problems).

Thanks again.

Fred
 

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