Equations turned into pictures!?

[Eric]

Every time I re-open a document I am working on with
lots of equations (made in Equation Editor 3), the
equations have been turned into damned pictures, so I can't
edit them! If I right click and choose 'Edit Picture' it
turns it into a bunch of different text boxes, each of
which contains one character in the equation!

What the hell is happening?!!?!?!?

Help?

Thanks
Eric

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Hi, Eric. This can occur if Word crashes while you are editing a document
and Word autorecovers the document. In the autorecovery process, Word loses
the OLE information for the equation object, which converts the object to a
picture. Does this sound like something that has happened with your document?

 

[Phil Sage]

Hi,

I have the opposite query - I would like to save existing
equation editor items as image files, preferably JPEG or
BMP. Is this possible? Or do I have to crash my machine?

Thanks, Phil.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Hi, Phil. Instead of crashing your machine, it might be easier to select the
equation object and then press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to convert it to a picture. You
can copy and paste the picture into Microsoft Photo Editor and save it as a
..jpg or .bmp file from there.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Hi, Eric. This can occur if Word crashes while you are

editing a document and Word autorecovers the document. In
the autorecovery process, Word loses the OLE information
for the equation object, which converts the object to a

picture. Does this sound like something that has happened

with your document?

Yes, indeed. I was saving it and Word crashed, and then the
picture conversion was done. SO in a sense I am lucky the
equations weren't completely lost.

You guys rock.

Best,
Eric