Inline, please:
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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: "Picture placeholders" affects only inline graphics.
=== Inlines affected would be images set as "inline" in the
Format|Picture|Layout tab, right? The only place I've used that
"inline" setting is in the appendixes; all others are set for
a -wrapped- setting, and some show while others so not
with -Picture Placeholders- on.
I wasn't aware of the difference and -Inline- images do indeed
come and go depending on the Placeholders settings; I checked
just for grins. But, -wrapped- may or may not react to that
setting. For me, at least, on my system.
"Drawings" covers
: wrapped ones. If you work in Normal view, you won't see wrapped
graphics
: regardless of the Options setting.
=== Does this imply I would see Inline images in Normal?
I didn't check yet due to time constraints, but it would
appear, with -Picture Placeholders- turned on, I don't see
anything but borders where the pictures would be if
they're -wrapped-, and no space at all for the -Inline- images.
e.g. none of my -Inline- appendix full page images show in
Normal View.
: ... Working in Normal view as much as
: possible is generally recommended for long docs (if you turn
off background
: repagination, this helps even more).
=== You can't really work in Normal and still work with
graphics?
=== When I'm writing straight text, that works well. I have to
switch to Print Layout though if there is an image on the page
and there are many images; probably 35 to 45% of the pages have
images on them.
Since they can sometimes jump to unexpected locations, I stop
and dress up the images about every ten pages or as long as I can
remember for sure what goes with what. Sometimes I use Tables,
sometimes I don't; it depends on the situation.
I use two methods to Insert pictures: Usually I open
PrintShop Pro and crop/resize/touchup the images, then Copy/Paste
them into the document. PSP does add a noticeable overhead time
to some Word operations, but not excessively compared to the
benefits of using it. I can't really per-size/crop etc. the
drawings because there are thousands to choose from in each
folder with only a few that will be used, which isn't known until
the text shapes up for them. The images are domonstrative tips,
so to speak.
It's faster for me to do them one-up this way.
=== Pagination doesn't seem to be an issue, but I hadn't thought
about it. So far it's not getting in the way but once in a blue
moon when I switch Print Layout.
=== I've never noticed any problems due to PSP/Word both being
open; have you or anyone else reading this? I sometimes notice
and overlap in activity if I switch to PSP before Word has
finished its Save but it's only a few seconds' worth and nothing
untoward has happened in all the years I've done it this way.
For more tips on working with long
: docs, see
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm
=== Good reference; I've downloaded it. Also the link to Bend
Word to Your Will is pretty good, too.
Hindsight is 20/20, but I think next time I'll try linking all
the images. In fact, I've been considering ways to convert this
one to links and see how it works.
=== Do you think there is any advantage to linking over
embedding, other than the final .doc size?
In the end it doesn't really seem to save much space so I've
embedded now for years. Back in WD97 I -think- linking made
things even slower but it's been a long time now.
Thanks for any comments. I'm going to take a look and see what
my PageFile is doing today.
PopS
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: "PopS" wrote in message
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: Easy Q, I think;
:
: 2.6 GHz, 512 RAM, 7200rpm drives, WinXP Pro SP2+ Word 2002
both
: updated to current fixes.
:
: As my document reached about 200 pages, it began to slow down
: response-wise. No problem, not a big surprise since I have a
lot
: of graphics, although they are sized for presentation in a
: document and most used without having to resize. A very few
are
: displayed landscape as whole-page docs.
:
: When speed began to bug me, thanks to this group, I separated
the
: doc into two, then three, etc., and now have it in 5 logical
: pieces; easy to work on.
: Periodically I archive and then put it all together as one
doc
: to check the TOC and Outline sensibility and go from there.
: About all I've done in Outline View is promot/demote a couple
of
: headings here and there; not much moving around as I started
from
: the Outline. Most work was done in Print Layout View.
:
: One of the 5 parts is heavy with JPEG graphics, so I turned
on
: Picture Placeholders to speed things up a bit. At first it
: didn't seem to work, but then I noticed it was sort of
working -
: some pics were placeholders and others were not. There's no
: relation to insert time or version etc. that I can tell.
Most
: graphics simply are still there.
: This seems to be a permanent situation and not file
: dependent.
: Also, after each time things do slow down, the loss of
speed
: remains after I close Word. I have to actually do a Restart
to
: get things back to "normal".
:
: I was wondering if, in those of you who have experienced
anything
: like this, whether it boils down to:
: - page file (1 Gig, on separate physical drive)
: - Word corruption
: - OS corruption
: - ???
:
: So far I've tired a Word Detect and Repair but only just now
: thought about the page file.
: Where else would you think would make sense to check?
:
: TIA,
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