What do blue dots under a picture mean in word?

[Guest]

I have been pasting pics onto a page and some have blue dots underneath
them... when I ty to print the page they do not appear on print preview???

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the dots are actually black, you have applied "Hidden" formatting to an
inline picture. If the dots are purple, they're smart tags (don't ask me
why), and the pictures are not printing because they're wrapped (not inline)
and you don't have "Drawing objects" checked on the Print tab of Tools |
Options.

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

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[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Because the color purple is a fashionably smart color? ;-)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What I meant was, I don't know why (or how) a picture would be marked as a
smart tag. BTW, though, for a rather interesting (and no doubt inadvertent)
implementation of smart tags, see http://www.ahf.net/calendar.html (scroll
down to the bottom to see an offer to find Regina Jeminez [Jimenez?] in
MapPoint--first offer is in Saskatchewan).

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

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Because the color purple is a fashionably smart color? ;-)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

If the dots are actually black, you have applied "Hidden" formatting to an
inline picture. If the dots are purple, they're smart tags (don't ask me
why), and the pictures are not printing because they're wrapped (not
inline)
and you don't have "Drawing objects" checked on the Print tab of Tools |
Options.

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

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so
all may benefit.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. The dots were both black AND blue/purple. I mucked around with the
picture formatting/wrapping and now the dots are gone are the pictures are
printing