"picture not saved within doc" ??

[Geoff Cox]

Hello,

a friend claims that she puts a picture into a Word 2000 document and
all seems well. Then later the picture can no longer be seen!

There is an line outline of the picture space but no picture and when
she triied to edit the "picture" she gets the message "picture not
saved within the document" ...

any ideas please?

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Geoff,

Try asking this in the word.drawing.graphics newsgroup. Please specify
what type of graphics file the original picture is/was (gif, jpg, tif,
ect?).

a friend claims that she puts a picture into a Word 2000 document and
all seems well. Then later the picture can no longer be seen!

There is an line outline of the picture space but no picture and when
she triied to edit the "picture" she gets the message "picture not
saved within the document" ...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[TF]

Geoff

Possibly Picture Placeholders is selected under Tools, Options, View tab?

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

Hello,

a friend claims that she puts a picture into a Word 2000 document and
all seems well. Then later the picture can no longer be seen!

There is an line outline of the picture space but no picture and when
she triied to edit the "picture" she gets the message "picture not
saved within the document" ...

any ideas please?

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Geoff Cox]

Geoff

Possibly Picture Placeholders is selected under Tools, Options, View tab?

Terry,

thanks for this info - I also had following response from Suzanne
Barnhill in the Word/drawing/graphics newsgroup..


"In answer to your questions, yes, the best way to do this is to save
the picture to your HD and then Insert | Picture | From File. This
assures that you still have the graphic even if something happens to
the document (and for use in other documents). But you should also be
able to embed the picture in the document if you (while still
connected to the Internet, so that the picture is still displayed)
select it and press Ctrl+Shift+F9, which unlinks it and saves it in
the document."

Cheers

Geoff