drawing in word document created on pc notshown in office for mac 2008

[dikbons]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Dear all,
I received a Word document created on a pc. The drawings in the document are not shown on my Mac. (office for mac 2008)
When I put the USB-stick with the mentioned doc in a PC it shows all the drawings

 

[John McGhie]

You can try double-clicking the drawing in Mac Word. It should then convert
the file into Mac format.

Sadly, this may cause substantial file bloat because each picture will be
stored in two formats.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Dear all,
I received a Word document created on a pc. The drawings in the document are
not shown on my Mac. (office for mac 2008)
When I put the USB-stick with the mentioned doc in a PC it shows all the
drawings

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[CyberTaz]

Unfortunately, "drawings" is an extremely vague term. Without knowing
exactly what format they are or how they were added to the document it's
hard to identify what the problem is. Not all graphics formats survive
cross-platform, especially if they were pasted into the doc.

It would also help to know what *does* appear when you open the file on the
Mac - is there nothing, is there empty boxes... what? What do you see where
the objects should be?

Are you opening the file directly from the USB stick? What happens if you
copy the file to your HD & open that copy?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[dikbons]

doubleclick on the empty box shows:"server appliance for Coreldraw graphic. objects can not be found".
The strange thing is that I did the same for `Mac & PC; USB-stick with file; copied to HD, and there is no Coreldraw application installed on the PC.
Still the PC shows me the drawings & on the MAC there is only an empty box.(rectangle, 4 lines and nothing in it)
Why not on a MAC??

 

[CyberTaz]

OK, there's your problem... Corel abandoned the Mac OS several versions back
& continues to dis it. Have a look at their own blog in which
Gerard Metrailler is arrogant enough to call the Mac " ... just another
Windows computer" & goes on to announce the disclaimer " Corel won't support
any problem specifically related to the Mac hardware. "

Bottom line: Since Corel no longer recognizes Macs, Macs no longer recognize
Corel's *Windows-only* file types. Have the graphics resaved in a
non-Corel-proprietary format & you should have no problem.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Well, it doesn't do that on MY Mac...

That's because I have CorelDRAW installed in Windows under Parallels on this
Mac!

On most Windows computers you will get away with it, because CorelDRAW saves
a WMF placeable "header" image with each of its pictures. Windows will
display the WMF version if it can't find CorelDRAW.

But on the Mac, Mac OS X does not know to dig around for alternatives: it
sees "CorelDRAW" and says immediately "I haven't got that!"

So there you go.

I would take a large baseball bat with you and "discuss" with the author of
that document the necessity to save their finished images in some
universally recognisable format, before placing them in a document.

Favourites would be WMF or EMF (which will be readable by anything that has
Microsoft Office installed) or PNG or GIF (which is readable by
anything...).

Hope this helps

doubleclick on the empty box shows:"server appliance for Coreldraw graphic.
objects can not be found".
The strange thing is that I did the same for `Mac & PC; USB-stick with file;
copied to HD, and there is no Coreldraw application installed on the PC.
Still the PC shows me the drawings & on the MAC there is only an empty
box.(rectangle, 4 lines and nothing in it)
Why not on a MAC??

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[dikbons]

Thanks Bob Jones
Your recommended action solved my problem

 

[Guest]

Hello. Documents created in Windows PC World 97-2004, opened in Mac OS Leopard, loses inserted images(JPEG). Only the frame locating the image is visible. Please! What can i do ?

 

[CyberTaz]

The first place to look: Word> Preferences - View, clear the check for Image
Placeholders & make sure the box for Drawings *is* checked.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac