Mysterious Drawing

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Gary Thomson

Hi,

I have a drawing that I produced for my boss on my
computer (using Word from Office XP). This was produced
under the "Print Layout" view.

I E-mailed him with the document as an attachment, at
which point he tried to copy it into a document he had
produced (his machine using the earlier version of Word).
The current display of Word on his computer at the time
was "Normal" view, and when he tried to copy it he says he
coudln't as nothing was coming up. However, when I went
over to his computer and switched the view to "Print
Layout", the drawing appeared!! Very strange!!

Is there a reason why the drawing doesn't appear on Normal
view? It's even more strange as when we tried to print
the document using Normal view, the drawing came off on
the printer, even although it "wasn't there"!!
 
G

garfield-n-odie

That's how the normal and page layout views work by design. To quote
from Word's help file:

Work in normal view for typing, editing, and formatting text. Normal
view shows text formatting but simplifies the layout of the page so that
you can type and edit quickly. In normal view, page boundaries, headers
and footers, backgrounds, drawing objects, and pictures that do not have
the "In line with text" wrapping style do not appear.

Work in print layout view to see how text, graphics, and other elements
will be positioned on the printed page. This view is useful for editing
headers and footers, for adjusting margins, and for working with columns
and drawing objects.
 
G

Gary Thomson

Thanx



-----Original Message-----
That's how the normal and page layout views work by design. To quote
from Word's help file:

Work in normal view for typing, editing, and formatting text. Normal
view shows text formatting but simplifies the layout of the page so that
you can type and edit quickly. In normal view, page boundaries, headers
and footers, backgrounds, drawing objects, and pictures that do not have
the "In line with text" wrapping style do not appear.

Work in print layout view to see how text, graphics, and other elements
will be positioned on the printed page. This view is useful for editing
headers and footers, for adjusting margins, and for working with columns
and drawing objects.





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