when I insert items into a word document from my scanner the scale is
corrupted such that when I print the item it is only about 80% of the full
size. What can I do to correct this problem?
The item appears to be full size on the monitor screen but when you look at
the scale at the top of the screen it it apparent that the scale is way off.
In other words the scale is larger on the top of the screen than actual size
in inches. For example 4 inches on the scale measures about 6 acrual inches.
HELP

Onscreen dimensions in Word are dependent on your Zoom setting and are not
meant to be representative. The only way to establish the size at which a
graphic will print is to check the dimensions on the Size tab of Format
Picture. By default in recent versions of Word, graphics are inserted In
Line With Text. This means that they will be inserted at 100% unless they
are wider than the margin width, in which case they will be reduced to fit
between the margins.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Dick H." Dick wrote in message
...
when I insert items into a word document from my scanner the scale is
corrupted such that when I print the item it is only about 80% of the full
size. What can I do to correct this problem?
The item appears to be full size on the monitor screen but when you look
at
the scale at the top of the screen it it apparent that the scale is way
off.
In other words the scale is larger on the top of the screen than actual
size
in inches. For example 4 inches on the scale measures about 6 acrual
inches.
HELP

I looked at that and it seems no matter what size the original is, all images
scanned to my word documents are reduced by about 1/3. And the size that is
indicated by the ruler at the top of the window represents the true size of
the printed copies. I feel it may be a conflict between my HP psc 950 and Win
XP/Office 2003. We can copy full scale to the printer but not to insert in
the word documents.

I used an image that was only 2.75" wide x 5" deep and it came back at 2
1/4"wide X 4 1/4" deep.
And those were the actual dimensions shown on the ruler at the top of the
Word document when the item was inserted. However that ruler is way out of
scale. HELP!!!
P.S. Thanks for trying Suzanne!!

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Onscreen dimensions in Word are dependent on your Zoom setting and are not
meant to be representative. The only way to establish the size at which a
graphic will print is to check the dimensions on the Size tab of Format
Picture. By default in recent versions of Word, graphics are inserted In
Line With Text. This means that they will be inserted at 100% unless they
are wider than the margin width, in which case they will be reduced to fit
between the margins.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Dick H." Dick wrote in message
...
when I insert items into a word document from my scanner the scale is
corrupted such that when I print the item it is only about 80% of the full
size. What can I do to correct this problem?
The item appears to be full size on the monitor screen but when you look
at
the scale at the top of the screen it it apparent that the scale is way
off.
In other words the scale is larger on the top of the screen than actual
size
in inches. For example 4 inches on the scale measures about 6 acrual
inches.
HELP

"I used an image that was only 2.75" wide x 5" deep and it came back at 2
1/4"wide X 4 1/4" deep.
And those were the actual dimensions shown on the ruler at the top of the
Word document when the item was inserted. However that ruler is way out of
scale. HELP!!! "

Are you referring to measurements taken off your computer screen or
measurements taken from a printed document?

Images and their print size are measured in pixels.
80 pixels used to be a gauge for approximately one inch. With today's larger
screens, that one-inch pixel size has changed, all dependent upon the
display resolution your screen is set up to display. (I've seen some newer
references for 86 pixels.)

Some suggestions:
1) Size your image your image (with a non-Word) graphics software to fit
within the parameters of your Word layout [width and height]. It would
surprise me if your able to use anything larger than 400 X 400 pixels
effectively!

2) Than insert the previously saved image into Word.

Thank you for your help.
You got us thinking about the size of the space in our normal view in Word.
We had it set with large margins both on the sides and top and
bottom.Therefore there was only 5" width and about 8" of height available for
the image to be inserted into
..
Since we have changed the page layout of our Normal View to maxamize the
space available for images, we are no longer having a problem with all
inserted images being scaled down from the size of the original image placed
on the scanner. In other words the size of the copy we get is nearly
identical to the size of the original which is what we desire in most cases.
Thank you for leading us to the problem.
Sincerely
Richard B. & Mary E. Hyde

"lostinspace" wrote:

"I used an image that was only 2.75" wide x 5" deep and it came back at 2
1/4"wide X 4 1/4" deep.
And those were the actual dimensions shown on the ruler at the top of the
Word document when the item was inserted. However that ruler is way out of
scale. HELP!!! "

Are you referring to measurements taken off your computer screen or
measurements taken from a printed document?

Images and their print size are measured in pixels.
80 pixels used to be a gauge for approximately one inch. With today's larger
screens, that one-inch pixel size has changed, all dependent upon the
display resolution your screen is set up to display. (I've seen some newer
references for 86 pixels.)

Some suggestions:
1) Size your image your image (with a non-Word) graphics software to fit
within the parameters of your Word layout [width and height]. It would
surprise me if your able to use anything larger than 400 X 400 pixels
effectively!

2) Than insert the previously saved image into Word.