black picture in word 2007

[cj]

Documents created with images in Word 2003 show & print a black box.
Although not all documents created show this black box.

Anyone know a solution?

 

[RockyTDR]

I also had the same problem with some "Word XP"-documents. When I opened them
in Word 2007, they showed black boxes instead of images.

I discovered that the problem wasn't with Office 2007 (although Office XP
didn't have black boxes). The documents were OCR-scanned with Omnipage Pro
and exported as .doc-file.
It looks like the OCR-program made some coding-mistakes that Office 2007
can't handle.

Here is how I fixed it, so I could open the files with Office 2007:

- Open the doc-file with Word XP/2003
- Compress ALL images with the built-in compression tool
- Save the file
- Try to open the file with Word 2007

In my case, there was 1 image that was still black, so I had to find another
workaround:
- Open the file with Word 2007, and remember which picture(s) is/are still
black
- Open the file with Word XP/2003
- Copy the picture from Word XP/2003 to a program to edit images
- Save the image as a bitmap/jpeg on a location you easily remember
- Insert the image in Word XP/2003
Note that the inserted image can be bigger/smaller than the original. You
can change the size, but you should write down the measurements of the
original one
first.

To avoid black boxes in the future: use an up-to date OCR-program that is
compatible with Office 2007.

I hope this helped!

 

[Ted Longstaffe]

In my case, there was 1 image that was still black, so I had to find another
workaround:
- Open the file with Word 2007, and remember which picture(s) is/are still
black
- Open the file with Word XP/2003
- Copy the picture from Word XP/2003 to a program to edit images
- Save the image as a bitmap/jpeg on a location you easily remember
- Insert the image in Word XP/2003

I successfully used Paint (in Vista) to save as a JPG. No fancy program
required.

My case was a bit different - not all of the image was blacked out in Word
2007. The top 20% or so of the image was visible, but the rest was completely
black on the screen and on paper.

Thanks for providing the method.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Word 2007 has a bug opening some pictures from Word 2003 and earlier
documents. Until Microsoft releases an official fix for this, here is a
workaround for pictures opening as black boxes.

1. Using Word 2003, open the document containing pictures so they display
correctly.

2. Right click a picture in the document, then click Format Picture.

3. Click Compress in the lower-left corner of the Picture tab.

4. Check "All pictures in document" , "No Change" , and "Delete cropped
areas of pictures" , and uncheck "Compress pictures".

WARNING: This will delete the extra (unseen) portion of any "cropped"
pictures.
Retain a backup copy of the original document in the event you may need to
adjust "cropped" image boundaries in the future. If this behavior is
undesired, or if any images are still not fixed in Word 2007, you may try
instead checking "Compress pictures", and unchecking "Delete cropped areas of
pictures". If that still fails, the only other known fix is copying and
pasting the images into a graphic editing program, saving them, and then
re-inserting them back into the document.

5. Click File, Save As, and save the file with a revised name. All pictures
in the document should now open correctly in Word 2007.

6. Confirm that the resulting file's pictures open correctly in Word 2007.