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Ian Page
I'm using Word X (with Service Release 1), on Mac OS X 10.2.6.
My document contains a series of similar tables (each 7 columns, a total of
60+ rows, about 8 rows per table). I insert graphics into the tables by
pasting pictures from a PowerPoint file - each is about 200K. When there are
less than 10 or so pictures in the document, everything is fine, but when
there are many, they all disappear simultaneously, apparently at random. A
small picture in the document header also disappears at the same time.
I can see an empty square within each table cell where the pictures used to
be (though my pictures are all rectangular). Clicking on this square selects
it, so that picture handles appear (and Word chimes), but the Format Picture
dialog won't come up - all I can do is delete what's left of the picture. (I
do not have "picture place-holders" selected in preferences - the pictures
are visible, and disappear before my eyes.)
At first I thought the trigger for the problem was a full Save (as opposed
to Fast Save), but testing indicates that it happens at other times as well
- like switching from Page View to Normal View.
In an attempt to reconstruct the document, I moved all the pictures into
another Word document, and reformatted them there (scaled them, etc). That
document (with no table) is fine and I do not lose pictures from it. From
there I paste them back into my table document - sometimes I get as many as
thirty or more pasted back in, and then they all simultaneously disappear
again!
I have rebooted in OS 9, opened the document in Word 2001 and pasted all
pictures back in without problems, but I don't dare to open it again in Word
X. Any thoughts?
My document contains a series of similar tables (each 7 columns, a total of
60+ rows, about 8 rows per table). I insert graphics into the tables by
pasting pictures from a PowerPoint file - each is about 200K. When there are
less than 10 or so pictures in the document, everything is fine, but when
there are many, they all disappear simultaneously, apparently at random. A
small picture in the document header also disappears at the same time.
I can see an empty square within each table cell where the pictures used to
be (though my pictures are all rectangular). Clicking on this square selects
it, so that picture handles appear (and Word chimes), but the Format Picture
dialog won't come up - all I can do is delete what's left of the picture. (I
do not have "picture place-holders" selected in preferences - the pictures
are visible, and disappear before my eyes.)
At first I thought the trigger for the problem was a full Save (as opposed
to Fast Save), but testing indicates that it happens at other times as well
- like switching from Page View to Normal View.
In an attempt to reconstruct the document, I moved all the pictures into
another Word document, and reformatted them there (scaled them, etc). That
document (with no table) is fine and I do not lose pictures from it. From
there I paste them back into my table document - sometimes I get as many as
thirty or more pasted back in, and then they all simultaneously disappear
again!
I have rebooted in OS 9, opened the document in Word 2001 and pasted all
pictures back in without problems, but I don't dare to open it again in Word
X. Any thoughts?