Word 2007 - Image Transparency Bug

[Rob BETA]

I think I've found a bug in Word 2007.

If you create an image with a transparent background (e.g. in Macromedia
Fireworks or another Graphics package) and then copy and paste it (or save as
an image with mattee set to transparent) into word 2007 BETA 2 it displays
the image with a white background and I cannot get rid of it. I can't find
the tool from 2003 called Set Transparent Image Color. The same applies with
inserting the image.

However, If I do the same in Excel or Publisher 2007 it works fine, and the
image imports with a transparent background so it can be neatly positioned
over the top of over images.

Any ideas?

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Rob,

I see the same behavior here. Microsoft introduced a completely new
drawing engine in Office 2007. PPT, Excel and Word use it with the
disclaimer that Word doesn't implement it fully. As I see the same
behavior in PPT, it might be that the new drawing engine doesn't support
transparencies. I've asked about this in the private beta newsgroups and
will get back to you with what I find out.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Rob BETA]

Ok Thanks, I was jsut confused as it worked fine in Excel and Publisher, but
not Word. Anyway, I imagine they wil fix this for the next Beta release (a
pre-release?) and the retail version. I was just pointing it out . Is there
any way around it, such as setting a transparent image colour, like in word
2003. I also tried using the fill options such as solid and gradient, but
they didnt seem to work at the moment.

Anyway, it's a great improvement to 2003 no matter about these minor bugs

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Rob,

I got an answer to my question from Steve Rindsberg, a PPT MVP:
Copy/paste gives you a BMP image wrapped in WMF clothing; BMP doesn't
support
transparency. Try saving as PNG instead then use Insert, Picture to
bring the
image in.

Picture Tools, Format Tab, Picture Tools group
Click Recolor and at the bottom of the dropdown you'll find a tool for
setting
transparency.


Patrick Schmid

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Patrick,

FWIW, generally, although MS did remove most of the NDA around the beta they're generally not too happy with mentioning in the
public newsgroups or on websites etc, the beta newsgroups or activities that go on there. So while mentioning a solution is
usually okay the source of it is what they get a bit concerned about.

Plus you get, especially with 1/2 million copy beta, folks who get upset because they think everyone should be in the same beta site
<g>.

Are you having fun trying to keep up with all of the newsgroups?


Bob ?
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Hi Rob,

I see the same behavior here. Microsoft introduced a completely new
drawing engine in Office 2007. PPT, Excel and Word use it with the
disclaimer that Word doesn't implement it fully. As I see the same
behavior in PPT, it might be that the new drawing engine doesn't support
transparencies. I've asked about this in the private beta newsgroups and
will get back to you with what I find out.

Patrick Schmid <