Insert Picture from File -- How to set the default display format to "Details" instead of "Thumbnail

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Dear Experts

I have a question about inserting pictures from files. When I try to insert a picture in a Word file, how do I set the default display format of the "Insert Picture" window to "Details" instead of "Thumbnails"? Each time I insert a picture, the "Insert Picture" window always displays the files in a fold in thumbnail format, which is quite a poor choice when there are a lot of pictures in the folder, and many of them are similar so it's difficult to choose using thumbnails. And it becomes annoying to change the display format to "details" each time a picture is inserted. This appears to be a new problem specifically with Office XP

Thank you very much for the help

Xiao-an Wan
Agere Systems

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I have a question about inserting pictures from files. When I try to insert a picture in a Word file, how do I set the default display format of the "Insert Picture" window to "Details" instead of "Thumbnails"? Each time I insert a picture, the "Insert Picture" window always displays the files in a fold in thumbnail format, which is quite a poor choice when there are a lot of pictures in the folder, and many of them are similar so it's difficult to choose using thumbnails. And it becomes annoying to change the display format to "details" each time a picture is inserted. This appears to be a new problem specifically with Office XP.

FWIW, I don't have any problems with this. Word 2002 remembers the setting I last used and retains it.

Suzanne Barnhill always argued with me about this , but as I recall, she recently discovered some setting or addin on her machine that interfered with this setting being retained. I can't recall what that was, but if you start Word in SAFE mode (hold CTRL when starting it up) and test, is the setting retained?

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

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't believe it is an add-in that causes this particular setting not to
be retained (it might be a function of which version of Windows you use--I'm
using Windows 2000), and indeed this is not the one I complained about. My
complaint was about not being able to default back to the last-used folder.
I think Beth Melton explained that as long as the location for clip art is
not defined in Tools | Options | File Locations, the Insert | Picture | From
File dialog will default to the last-used folder; if you have My Pictures
set as the default path (as I do, not that I made that choice--the app was
installed that way), the dialog defaults to that folder every time.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Hi =?Utf-8?B?eGlhb2Fud2FuZw==?=,

insert a picture in a Word file, how do I set the default display format of
the "Insert Picture" window to "Details" instead of "Thumbnails"? Each time
I insert a picture, the "Insert Picture" window always displays the files in
a fold in thumbnail format, which is quite a poor choice when there are a
lot of pictures in the folder, and many of them are similar so it's
difficult to choose using thumbnails. And it becomes annoying to change the
display format to "details" each time a picture is inserted. This appears
to be a new problem specifically with Office XP.

FWIW, I don't have any problems with this. Word 2002 remembers the setting I last used and retains it.

Suzanne Barnhill always argued with me about this , but as I recall,

she recently discovered some setting or addin on her machine that interfered
with this setting being retained. I can't recall what that was, but if you
start Word in SAFE mode (hold CTRL when starting it up) and test, is the
setting retained?

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


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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Suzanne,

My
complaint was about not being able to default back to the last-used folder.

Ah, right...

Cindy Meister

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Interestingly enough, I've just been working with a lot of graphics today,
and the first time I opened the Insert Picture dialog, it was in Details
view (which I had changed it to yesterday, I guess), so this part at least
now seems to be working.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

I guess you are using Office 2000, not XP? Office 2000 works fine as you described. The problem appeared after I upgrade to XP

Best regards

Xiao-an Wan

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm using Office 2003.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I guess you are using Office 2000, not XP? Office 2000 works fine as you

described. The problem appeared after I upgrade to XP.

 

[Guest]

I guess the versions made me confused -- but if Office 2003 is a later version that Office XP, then the problem may have been fixed

Best regards

Xiao-an Wan
Agere System