Word 2003 - Pictures

[Blackburst]

I have a book manuscript of about 300 pages, written on Word 2003, on
an HP laptop with XP SP2, 1G RAM.

I decided to import a few pictures into the text to help illustrate
the topic for friends who read it, or to help market it. They are
mostly JPGs, and a few TIFFs. I re-size them in MSWord. When I get up
around 20 or so images in the Word manuscript, I can no longer save
the product.

Any idea what's happening? Do I not have enough RAM? Any other advice?
Is there some other program I can convert to (a later version of
Office/Word, or some book publishing software) that will allow me to
do this? (It will eventually have about 130 images.)

Thanks!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This should not be a limitation of Word. I created a Word 2003 document on
an XP SP2 desktop with (admittedly) 2GB of RAM and containing illustrations
that bulked the document out to 11.6 MB (well under Word's stated limit of
32 MB not counting graphics), and I had no difficulty saving it. Another
document (350 pp.) was completed in an earlier version of Word on a system
with much less RAM and HD space; its graphics were all linked, but there
were dozens of them.

One thing that will help is to compress the pictures, especially if you have
cropped or resized them, as compressing them removes the cropped areas.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Blackburst]

This should not be a limitation of Word. I created a Word 2003 document on
an XP SP2 desktop with (admittedly) 2GB of RAM and containing illustrations
that bulked the document out to 11.6 MB (well under Word's stated limit of
32 MB not counting graphics), and I had no difficulty saving it. Another
document (350 pp.) was completed in an earlier version of Word on a system
with much less RAM and HD space; its graphics were all linked, but there
were dozens of them.

One thing that will help is to compress the pictures, especially if you have
cropped or resized them, as compressing them removes the cropped areas.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

Thanks. I just tried importing about 15 images and saving it to a 32g
flash drive, hoping to move it to a different computer, but again, it
will not save. However, I AM able to move the text-only manuscript and
my raw files of about 300 images, all in one move to the same flash
drive! Very weird.

I wonder if the size of the original images might be a problem. Most
are roughly 800x600 JPGs, but there are a few TIFFs and 1632x1224
JPGs. Could this be an issue? Do I need to reduce/convert in PhotoShop
before importing?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It would probably make sense to resample them to the size you'll actually be
using.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

This should not be a limitation of Word. I created a Word 2003 document on
an XP SP2 desktop with (admittedly) 2GB of RAM and containing
illustrations
that bulked the document out to 11.6 MB (well under Word's stated limit of
32 MB not counting graphics), and I had no difficulty saving it. Another
document (350 pp.) was completed in an earlier version of Word on a system
with much less RAM and HD space; its graphics were all linked, but there
were dozens of them.

One thing that will help is to compress the pictures, especially if you
have
cropped or resized them, as compressing them removes the cropped areas.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

Thanks. I just tried importing about 15 images and saving it to a 32g
flash drive, hoping to move it to a different computer, but again, it
will not save. However, I AM able to move the text-only manuscript and
my raw files of about 300 images, all in one move to the same flash
drive! Very weird.

I wonder if the size of the original images might be a problem. Most
are roughly 800x600 JPGs, but there are a few TIFFs and 1632x1224
JPGs. Could this be an issue? Do I need to reduce/convert in PhotoShop
before importing?