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pictures aren't visible
When I paste pictures of any kind into Word, it only shows me a border that indicates the size of the picture, not the pic itself.
When I move the cursor away from the newly pasted invisible picture, the border also becomes invisible. I've had this copy of Word for a long time (version XP) and it did not used to do this. I can't find any settings which would affect this. How can I fix this? PS: The pictures do show up in Excel or any other Office app, just not in Word. Thanks in advance. If I have posted to the wrong group, please accept my apology. -- RMC,CPA |
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In Tools Options View, clear the checkbox for "Picture placeholders".
Further down in the same dialog, make sure "Drawings" is checked. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org R. Choate wrote: When I paste pictures of any kind into Word, it only shows me a border that indicates the size of the picture, not the pic itself. When I move the cursor away from the newly pasted invisible picture, the border also becomes invisible. I've had this copy of Word for a long time (version XP) and it did not used to do this. I can't find any settings which would affect this. How can I fix this? PS: The pictures do show up in Excel or any other Office app, just not in Word. Thanks in advance. If I have posted to the wrong group, please accept my apology. |
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I had already checked those settings and they were already set as you suggested.
-- RMC,CPA "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... In Tools Options View, clear the checkbox for "Picture placeholders". Further down in the same dialog, make sure "Drawings" is checked. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org R. Choate wrote: When I paste pictures of any kind into Word, it only shows me a border that indicates the size of the picture, not the pic itself. When I move the cursor away from the newly pasted invisible picture, the border also becomes invisible. I've had this copy of Word for a long time (version XP) and it did not used to do this. I can't find any settings which would affect this. How can I fix this? PS: The pictures do show up in Excel or any other Office app, just not in Word. Thanks in advance. If I have posted to the wrong group, please accept my apology. |
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I am having a similar problem and have not found a solution to it yet, but I
have observed some things that may be helpful. First check if our symptoms match up more or less: I put in pictures or autoshapes and, while they appear for a time, they disappear when I scroll them off the screen and scroll back to them, or when I slide a window over the top of the Word window -- it's almost as if the document doesn't refresh these objects. I can actually move another window part way over the object and move it away, and it's as if I have erased part of the object. If I cover the whole object with that window, then after that all I see is the text of the document (object disappears). The autoshapes/drawings are still present, but they are only visible in print preview, or when I click on them and choose a tool like the crop tool from the drawing toolbar. I've found that I can also view then for a time if I right-click on one of them and choose ORDER | BRING TO FRONT or BRING IN FRONT OF TEXT. Just as you mentioned, if I click the location where those objects are supposed to be, I can see their frames, but the desired objects are not visible. Do you experience similar behavior, or do your objects ever reappear? Here's what I suspect my problems is: I have a second installation on my laptop and I don't have this problem at all. I have not updated that version for some time, but I have all of the latest updates on this installation (desktop computer). I suspect this might have something to do with it, but I don't have time to uninstall and then reinstall to an unpatched version right now to find out. I was hoping to come out here and find a quick answer, but even Google hasn't turned up anything on this one. If you have time to devote to such an undertaking, perhaps you could investigate on your own -- that is, if you have patched your Office installation. If you were to reinstall and leave the installation unpatched to verify whether the behavior persists, at least you could rule out the possibility that this behavior was brought on by a patch. You could then patch your system incrementally to try and isolate which patch caused the problem (you should be able to go to Service Pack 1 with no problems). I brought up my laptop to verify that the versions were different, and they are. The version on my laptop is (11.6359.6360) SP1 and the version that's on my desktop is (11.6502.6408) SP1. I wish I had used my desktop installation a little more before I had patched it so that I could tell you for sure that updating was the source of my problem. Maybe Microsoft will actually pay you for beta-testing their product for them :-). This has got me curious now. Perhaps I will reinstall on my desktop and use my laptop while I wait. I will report back later. D. Turnipseed Microsoft Frustrated User MSGRRRR "R. Choate" wrote: I had already checked those settings and they were already set as you suggested. -- RMC,CPA "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... In Tools Options View, clear the checkbox for "Picture placeholders". Further down in the same dialog, make sure "Drawings" is checked. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org R. Choate wrote: When I paste pictures of any kind into Word, it only shows me a border that indicates the size of the picture, not the pic itself. When I move the cursor away from the newly pasted invisible picture, the border also becomes invisible. I've had this copy of Word for a long time (version XP) and it did not used to do this. I can't find any settings which would affect this. How can I fix this? PS: The pictures do show up in Excel or any other Office app, just not in Word. Thanks in advance. If I have posted to the wrong group, please accept my apology. |
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That wasn't it. I'm running version (11.5604.5606) now and there's no
difference in behavior. There was another post (http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...25c&sloc=en-us) that looks like it might address this issue. "D. Turnipseed" wrote: I am having a similar problem and have not found a solution to it yet, but I have observed some things that may be helpful. First check if our symptoms match up more or less: I put in pictures or autoshapes and, while they appear for a time, they disappear when I scroll them off the screen and scroll back to them, or when I slide a window over the top of the Word window -- it's almost as if the document doesn't refresh these objects. I can actually move another window part way over the object and move it away, and it's as if I have erased part of the object. If I cover the whole object with that window, then after that all I see is the text of the document (object disappears). The autoshapes/drawings are still present, but they are only visible in print preview, or when I click on them and choose a tool like the crop tool from the drawing toolbar. I've found that I can also view then for a time if I right-click on one of them and choose ORDER | BRING TO FRONT or BRING IN FRONT OF TEXT. Just as you mentioned, if I click the location where those objects are supposed to be, I can see their frames, but the desired objects are not visible. Do you experience similar behavior, or do your objects ever reappear? Here's what I suspect my problems is: I have a second installation on my laptop and I don't have this problem at all. I have not updated that version for some time, but I have all of the latest updates on this installation (desktop computer). I suspect this might have something to do with it, but I don't have time to uninstall and then reinstall to an unpatched version right now to find out. I was hoping to come out here and find a quick answer, but even Google hasn't turned up anything on this one. If you have time to devote to such an undertaking, perhaps you could investigate on your own -- that is, if you have patched your Office installation. If you were to reinstall and leave the installation unpatched to verify whether the behavior persists, at least you could rule out the possibility that this behavior was brought on by a patch. You could then patch your system incrementally to try and isolate which patch caused the problem (you should be able to go to Service Pack 1 with no problems). I brought up my laptop to verify that the versions were different, and they are. The version on my laptop is (11.6359.6360) SP1 and the version that's on my desktop is (11.6502.6408) SP1. I wish I had used my desktop installation a little more before I had patched it so that I could tell you for sure that updating was the source of my problem. Maybe Microsoft will actually pay you for beta-testing their product for them :-). This has got me curious now. Perhaps I will reinstall on my desktop and use my laptop while I wait. I will report back later. D. Turnipseed Microsoft Frustrated User MSGRRRR "R. Choate" wrote: I had already checked those settings and they were already set as you suggested. -- RMC,CPA "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... In Tools Options View, clear the checkbox for "Picture placeholders". Further down in the same dialog, make sure "Drawings" is checked. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org R. Choate wrote: When I paste pictures of any kind into Word, it only shows me a border that indicates the size of the picture, not the pic itself. When I move the cursor away from the newly pasted invisible picture, the border also becomes invisible. I've had this copy of Word for a long time (version XP) and it did not used to do this. I can't find any settings which would affect this. How can I fix this? PS: The pictures do show up in Excel or any other Office app, just not in Word. Thanks in advance. If I have posted to the wrong group, please accept my apology. |
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Following the course of action in the post referenced in my last did not
solve my problem, but it is on the right track and might work for others. After updating my video card driver, I still encountered the same problem. However, this prompted me to take a closer look at the video card as the source of the problem. Brought up the hardware acceleration troubleshooting dialog by right-clicking on the desktop and choosing PROPERTIES | SETTINGS Tab | ADVANCED Button | TROUBLESHOOT Tab and proceeded to decrease the hardware acceleration incrementally (move slider one notch to the left and click apply). Each time, I tried my document again and found that it started working normally when the slider was set on the third notch from the left. My card is an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB. I hope this info is helpful. "D. Turnipseed" wrote: That wasn't it. I'm running version (11.5604.5606) now and there's no difference in behavior. There was another post (http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...25c&sloc=en-us) that looks like it might address this issue. "D. Turnipseed" wrote: I am having a similar problem and have not found a solution to it yet, but I have observed some things that may be helpful. First check if our symptoms match up more or less: I put in pictures or autoshapes and, while they appear for a time, they disappear when I scroll them off the screen and scroll back to them, or when I slide a window over the top of the Word window -- it's almost as if the document doesn't refresh these objects. I can actually move another window part way over the object and move it away, and it's as if I have erased part of the object. If I cover the whole object with that window, then after that all I see is the text of the document (object disappears). The autoshapes/drawings are still present, but they are only visible in print preview, or when I click on them and choose a tool like the crop tool from the drawing toolbar. I've found that I can also view then for a time if I right-click on one of them and choose ORDER | BRING TO FRONT or BRING IN FRONT OF TEXT. Just as you mentioned, if I click the location where those objects are supposed to be, I can see their frames, but the desired objects are not visible. Do you experience similar behavior, or do your objects ever reappear? Here's what I suspect my problems is: I have a second installation on my laptop and I don't have this problem at all. I have not updated that version for some time, but I have all of the latest updates on this installation (desktop computer). I suspect this might have something to do with it, but I don't have time to uninstall and then reinstall to an unpatched version right now to find out. I was hoping to come out here and find a quick answer, but even Google hasn't turned up anything on this one. If you have time to devote to such an undertaking, perhaps you could investigate on your own -- that is, if you have patched your Office installation. If you were to reinstall and leave the installation unpatched to verify whether the behavior persists, at least you could rule out the possibility that this behavior was brought on by a patch. You could then patch your system incrementally to try and isolate which patch caused the problem (you should be able to go to Service Pack 1 with no problems). I brought up my laptop to verify that the versions were different, and they are. The version on my laptop is (11.6359.6360) SP1 and the version that's on my desktop is (11.6502.6408) SP1. I wish I had used my desktop installation a little more before I had patched it so that I could tell you for sure that updating was the source of my problem. Maybe Microsoft will actually pay you for beta-testing their product for them :-). This has got me curious now. Perhaps I will reinstall on my desktop and use my laptop while I wait. I will report back later. D. Turnipseed Microsoft Frustrated User MSGRRRR "R. Choate" wrote: I had already checked those settings and they were already set as you suggested. -- RMC,CPA "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... In Tools Options View, clear the checkbox for "Picture placeholders". Further down in the same dialog, make sure "Drawings" is checked. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org R. Choate wrote: When I paste pictures of any kind into Word, it only shows me a border that indicates the size of the picture, not the pic itself. When I move the cursor away from the newly pasted invisible picture, the border also becomes invisible. I've had this copy of Word for a long time (version XP) and it did not used to do this. I can't find any settings which would affect this. How can I fix this? PS: The pictures do show up in Excel or any other Office app, just not in Word. Thanks in advance. If I have posted to the wrong group, please accept my apology. |
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Well until now, no one has mentioned that the pictures are visible for a
short while and then disappear. That's a significant difference from saying that all you see is an outline! THIS IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROBLEM! This is caused by a bad graphics driver that is unable to refresh the overlay mode (in Word, that is the graphics layer) correctly. Both Intel (the 915 chipset using the Intel GMA900 PCI-E controller) and ATI have posted new drivers on their sites that resolves the problem. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "D. Turnipseed" wrote in message ... : Following the course of action in the post referenced in my last did not : solve my problem, but it is on the right track and might work for others. : After updating my video card driver, I still encountered the same problem. : However, this prompted me to take a closer look at the video card as the : source of the problem. Brought up the hardware acceleration troubleshooting : dialog by right-clicking on the desktop and choosing PROPERTIES | SETTINGS : Tab | ADVANCED Button | TROUBLESHOOT Tab and proceeded to decrease the : hardware acceleration incrementally (move slider one notch to the left and : click apply). Each time, I tried my document again and found that it started : working normally when the slider was set on the third notch from the left. : My card is an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB. I hope this info is helpful. : : "D. Turnipseed" wrote: : : That wasn't it. I'm running version (11.5604.5606) now and there's no : difference in behavior. There was another post : (http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...25c&sloc=en-us) that looks like it might address this issue. : : "D. Turnipseed" wrote: : : I am having a similar problem and have not found a solution to it yet, but I : have observed some things that may be helpful. : First check if our symptoms match up more or less: : I put in pictures or autoshapes and, while they appear for a time, they : disappear when I scroll them off the screen and scroll back to them, or when : I slide a window over the top of the Word window -- it's almost as if the : document doesn't refresh these objects. I can actually move another window : part way over the object and move it away, and it's as if I have erased part : of the object. If I cover the whole object with that window, then after that : all I see is the text of the document (object disappears). The : autoshapes/drawings are still present, but they are only visible in : preview, or when I click on them and choose a tool like the crop tool from : the drawing toolbar. I've found that I can also view then for a time if I : right-click on one of them and choose ORDER | BRING TO FRONT or BRING IN : FRONT OF TEXT. Just as you mentioned, if I click the location where those : objects are supposed to be, I can see their frames, but the desired objects : are not visible. Do you experience similar behavior, or do your objects ever : reappear? : Here's what I suspect my problems is: : I have a second installation on my laptop and I don't have this problem at : all. I have not updated that version for some time, but I have all of the : latest updates on this installation (desktop computer). I suspect this might : have something to do with it, but I don't have time to uninstall and then : reinstall to an unpatched version right now to find out. I was hoping to : come out here and find a quick answer, but even Google hasn't turned up : anything on this one. If you have time to devote to such an undertaking, : perhaps you could investigate on your own -- that is, if you have patched : your Office installation. If you were to reinstall and leave the : installation unpatched to verify whether the behavior persists, at least you : could rule out the possibility that this behavior was brought on by a patch. : You could then patch your system incrementally to try and isolate which patch : caused the problem (you should be able to go to Service Pack 1 with no : problems). : I brought up my laptop to verify that the versions were different, and they : are. The version on my laptop is (11.6359.6360) SP1 and the version that's : on my desktop is (11.6502.6408) SP1. I wish I had used my desktop : installation a little more before I had patched it so that I could tell you : for sure that updating was the source of my problem. Maybe Microsoft will : actually pay you for beta-testing their product for them :-). : This has got me curious now. Perhaps I will reinstall on my desktop and use : my laptop while I wait. I will report back later. : : D. Turnipseed : Microsoft Frustrated User MSGRRRR : : "R. Choate" wrote: : : I had already checked those settings and they were already set as you suggested. : -- : RMC,CPA : : : "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... : In Tools Options View, clear the checkbox for "Picture placeholders". : Further down in the same dialog, make sure "Drawings" is checked. : : -- : Regards, : Jay Freedman : Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org : : R. Choate wrote: : When I paste pictures of any kind into Word, it only shows me a : border that indicates the size of the picture, not the pic itself. : When I move the cursor away from the newly pasted invisible picture, : the border also becomes invisible. I've had this copy of Word for a : long time (version XP) and it did not used to do this. I can't find : any settings which would affect this. How can I fix this? : : PS: The pictures do show up in Excel or any other Office app, just : not in Word. : : Thanks in advance. If I have posted to the wrong group, please accept : my apology. : : : : |
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Hang on, TF. Turnipseed is the one with the graphics card issue. I am not able to see any pics at all, just as I said originally,
even for a second. I can only see an outline and it isn't because of the placeholder settings. I checked the most obvious things before posting. Also, I think I mentioned that I can paste and view pics into Excel, Publisher, etc. just fine, but not Word. I still have the problem and am considering using the repair utility from the install disk. Any other ideas? Thanks !! -- RMC,CPA "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message ... Well until now, no one has mentioned that the pictures are visible for a short while and then disappear. That's a significant difference from saying that all you see is an outline! THIS IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROBLEM! This is caused by a bad graphics driver that is unable to refresh the overlay mode (in Word, that is the graphics layer) correctly. Both Intel (the 915 chipset using the Intel GMA900 PCI-E controller) and ATI have posted new drivers on their sites that resolves the problem. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "D. Turnipseed" wrote in message ... : Following the course of action in the post referenced in my last did not : solve my problem, but it is on the right track and might work for others. : After updating my video card driver, I still encountered the same problem. : However, this prompted me to take a closer look at the video card as the : source of the problem. Brought up the hardware acceleration troubleshooting : dialog by right-clicking on the desktop and choosing PROPERTIES | SETTINGS : Tab | ADVANCED Button | TROUBLESHOOT Tab and proceeded to decrease the : hardware acceleration incrementally (move slider one notch to the left and : click apply). Each time, I tried my document again and found that it started : working normally when the slider was set on the third notch from the left. : My card is an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB. I hope this info is helpful. : : "D. Turnipseed" wrote: : : That wasn't it. I'm running version (11.5604.5606) now and there's no : difference in behavior. There was another post : (http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...25c&sloc=en-us) that looks like it might address this issue. : : "D. Turnipseed" wrote: : : I am having a similar problem and have not found a solution to it yet, but I : have observed some things that may be helpful. : First check if our symptoms match up more or less: : I put in pictures or autoshapes and, while they appear for a time, they : disappear when I scroll them off the screen and scroll back to them, or when : I slide a window over the top of the Word window -- it's almost as if the : document doesn't refresh these objects. I can actually move another window : part way over the object and move it away, and it's as if I have erased part : of the object. If I cover the whole object with that window, then after that : all I see is the text of the document (object disappears). The : autoshapes/drawings are still present, but they are only visible in : preview, or when I click on them and choose a tool like the crop tool from : the drawing toolbar. I've found that I can also view then for a time if I : right-click on one of them and choose ORDER | BRING TO FRONT or BRING IN : FRONT OF TEXT. Just as you mentioned, if I click the location where those : objects are supposed to be, I can see their frames, but the desired objects : are not visible. Do you experience similar behavior, or do your objects ever : reappear? : Here's what I suspect my problems is: : I have a second installation on my laptop and I don't have this problem at : all. I have not updated that version for some time, but I have all of the : latest updates on this installation (desktop computer). I suspect this might : have something to do with it, but I don't have time to uninstall and then : reinstall to an unpatched version right now to find out. I was hoping to : come out here and find a quick answer, but even Google hasn't turned up : anything on this one. If you have time to devote to such an undertaking, : perhaps you could investigate on your own -- that is, if you have patched : your Office installation. If you were to reinstall and leave the : installation unpatched to verify whether the behavior persists, at least you : could rule out the possibility that this behavior was brought on by a patch. : You could then patch your system incrementally to try and isolate which patch : caused the problem (you should be able to go to Service Pack 1 with no : problems). : I brought up my laptop to verify that the versions were different, and they : are. The version on my laptop is (11.6359.6360) SP1 and the version that's : on my desktop is (11.6502.6408) SP1. I wish I had used my desktop : installation a little more before I had patched it so that I could tell you : for sure that updating was the source of my problem. Maybe Microsoft will : actually pay you for beta-testing their product for them :-). : This has got me curious now. Perhaps I will reinstall on my desktop and use : my laptop while I wait. I will report back later. : : D. Turnipseed : Microsoft Frustrated User MSGRRRR : : "R. Choate" wrote: : : I had already checked those settings and they were already set as you suggested. : -- : RMC,CPA : : : "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... : In Tools Options View, clear the checkbox for "Picture placeholders". : Further down in the same dialog, make sure "Drawings" is checked. : : -- : Regards, : Jay Freedman : Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org : : R. Choate wrote: : When I paste pictures of any kind into Word, it only shows me a : border that indicates the size of the picture, not the pic itself. : When I move the cursor away from the newly pasted invisible picture, : the border also becomes invisible. I've had this copy of Word for a : long time (version XP) and it did not used to do this. I can't find : any settings which would affect this. How can I fix this? : : PS: The pictures do show up in Excel or any other Office app, just : not in Word. : : Thanks in advance. If I have posted to the wrong group, please accept : my apology. : : : : |
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Oops. Sorry. I didn't realise that the thread had been kidnapped by someone
else. I wish users would stop taking over someone else's thread and post a new question about their problem! I wonder if this is maybe a printer driver problem. Let's try a couple of tests. 1. Check on the Internet support site for your printer manufacturer and see if they have a newer printer driver and download if there is. 2. Go to printers and Faxes and delete the current printer. Then either install the new driver (if available) or reinstall the old driver and assign it as windows default. Test. If this doesn't work, try starting Word in Safe Mode and let us know the result of the test. 1. From Start, Run, type in winword /a and press return. Word will start in Safe Mode. Open a document with a graphic and see if you can see it now. Terry "R. Choate" wrote in message ... : Hang on, TF. Turnipseed is the one with the graphics card issue. I am not able to see any pics at all, just as I said originally, : even for a second. I can only see an outline and it isn't because of the placeholder settings. I checked the most obvious things : before posting. Also, I think I mentioned that I can paste and view pics into Excel, Publisher, etc. just fine, but not Word. I : still have the problem and am considering using the repair utility from the install disk. Any other ideas? : : Thanks !! : -- : RMC,CPA : : |
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