Compresssing photo editor objects On Word 2002

[mendel72]

I have a huge Word 2002 file which contains a lot of pictures. When I tried
to use the "compress pictures" feature on "all pictures", I received the
infamous "word has encountered a problem" dialog and Word collapsed.

When I tried to use that feature on individual pictures, I realized that I
had 2 types of pictures - regular pictures and "photo editor objects".
Whenever I tried compressing a "photo editor object", Word collapsed again.

Is there a known problem with compressing photo editor objects? Is there a
way around it? Is there a way to convert those objects to regular pictures?

 

[DeanH]

You can use the Paste Special function and change the image to JPG, then they
will compress.
Unfortunately you will have to do this one by one but you can use the Select
Browse Object (found at the bottom right of the Word screen), this will allow
you to choose graphics and jump through the document quickly to the next
image.
I am sure that this could be possible via a macro, hopefully another
contributor may jump in here with a code for you.
The Paste Special function can result in good quality versions but sometimes
the resolution can reduce.
The best results will always be to go to original artwork and SaveAs
directly to JPG.
Hope this helps
DeanH

 

[mendel72]

Thank you for your response.

I realized this possibility. The problem is that with paste special I do not
get the pictures back to the same position in the page, so besides converting
them one by one, I would also have to manually move each one of them to their
original position.

Is there any shorter way to do that?

 

[DeanH]

Are you images floating? That is to say not InLineWithText format?
I don't have 2002 (working in 2003 and 2007) but in Tools, Options, Edit
there is an option to define the layout that images are pasted into the
document, I have InLineWithText as my default as I find this saves so much
problem with images moving around, unless I specifically require them to have
another layout.
I say this because if you have them InLineWithText the paste should not
cause you too much problem, if you don't I don't know of any other way to
control how the images are pasted/inserted in to a document without having to
move them to where you want them. Sorry.
How large is the document anyway, if you compress the images that you can,
does this reduce the file size to an acceptable level?
DeanH

 

[mendel72]

No, they are not InLineWithText, and unfortunately that option wouldn't work
for me.

As for your last question, I believe that compressing will reduce it
sufficiently, but of course I cannot be sure untill I find a way to actually
do it.