Microsoft Word Picture expands after editing

[slobbargoat]

I am using Word 2003. I do a lot of screen diagrams using Microsoft Word
Picture. All of a sudden, whenever I edit a Microsoft Word Picture, when I
save it and return to the document it only displays the upper left corner of
the picture and enlarges that upper left corner to the size of the former
full image.

I think this may have started when I coppied and pasted some revision
comments from one of my bosses word documents.

This is preventing me from doing my job, please offer assistance.

 

[slobbargoat]

bump

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Are you editing in the MS Office Drawing Canvas
in Word 2003 (Insert=>Picture=>New Drawing) or
in the older MS Picture Editor (right click on
a picture, paste or Insert=>Object=>Microsoft Word Picture

If you're doing a Word picture you may need to reset the
boundaries (you can drag the margins on the ruler while
editing the Word picture). The layout of the graphic within
the picture editor can look different there than in your
results if you are not in print layout view when in the
editor in Word 2003 or if the picture Layout is set to
wrapping style other than 'Inline with Text'


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I am using Word 2003. I do a lot of screen diagrams using Microsoft Word
Picture. All of a sudden, whenever I edit a Microsoft Word Picture, when I
save it and return to the document it only displays the upper left corner of
the picture and enlarges that upper left corner to the size of the former
full image.

I think this may have started when I coppied and pasted some revision
comments from one of my bosses word documents.

This is preventing me from doing my job, please offer assistance. >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[slobbargoat]

I am editing using the MS Picture Editor (Insert=>Object=>Microsoft Word
Picture)

The boundaries look to be correct. I am viewing the doc in Print mode and I
am editing the picture in Print mode. The text wrapping is set to Inline
with text.

This issue is bizarre.

 

[slobbargoat]

Some more info... I originally started this document using Word 2000. I
then transfered it to a machine using Word 2003. Everything worked fine up
until this point. Then one day using Word 2003 I copied and pasted some
revisions from a version of the doc that was saved in Word 2002 into another
version of the document. This is when the problem started.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

If it's only in the single document its possible that
the document is corrupted. Turn on the editing marks
and copy everything but the last paragraph mark to
a new document or open a new document and use Insert=>File
to pull the problem file into a clear one and see
if that helps.

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Some more info... I originally started this document using Word 2000. I
then transfered it to a machine using Word 2003. Everything worked fine up
until this point. Then one day using Word 2003 I copied and pasted some
revisions from a version of the doc that was saved in Word 2002 into another
version of the document. This is when the problem started. >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[slobbargoat]

Hi Bob, thanks for the response. Unfortunately neither of those solved the
problem, nor did re-installing Word 2003.

Do you work for Microsoft? If so, perhaps I could e-mail you a piece of
the doc so that you can see the problem for yourself. If you would like me
to you can e-mail me at (e-mail address removed).

Thanks again

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I am editing using the MS Picture Editor (Insert=>Object=>Microsoft Word
Picture)

The boundaries look to be correct. I am viewing the doc in Print mode and I
am editing the picture in Print mode. The text wrapping is set to Inline
with text.

This could be your problem: if you set text wrap to "Inline with Text" in the
Picture Editor (it's not clear WHERE you've set this formatting), then it won't
correctly recognize what belongs in the picture.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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