Problem viewing picture inserted in Word document

[DJP]

When I insert a picture into a Word 2003 document, I cannot view the image.
I can see the black box around the image, but not the image itself. I can't
see the image when I do a print preview either. The "picture placeholders"
box is not checked. What else should I do?

 

[garfield-n-odie]

In Word, click on Tools | Options | View | check the "Drawings" box | Print |
check the "Drawing objects" box | OK.

 

[DJP]

Both boxes were already checked. Any other ideas?

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Try decreasing or turning off hardware acceleration in your display adapter.
This setting can be accessed in Start | Control Panel | Display | Properties.

 

[DJP]

I tried reducing the hardware acceleration and still didn't have any luck.
Even with the acceleration set at none, I still couldn't view the image.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Possibly the picture you inserted is an .eps file that does not contain a
preview? What method did you use to insert the picture?

 

[DJP]

I tried to copy a .jpg and a .gif from the web. I tried both copy/past and
also tried to save the pictures as a file and then insert them. Nothing
seems to work. The only images I have had success with are inserting
Microsoft clipart but now I'm trying to insert pictures of the Apollo 11
mission into my daughter's school report.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

When copying an image from the web, try right-clicking on the image,
left-click on copy, switch to Word, click on Edit | Paste Special | Paste:
As: | Picture | OK.

 

[DJP]

It worked when I selected paste as "device indpendent bitmap" from the Paste
Special menu. Thank you very much!!

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Great! When you copy an image from the web and do a regular paste
(Ctrl+V, click the Paste button, or click Edit | Paste), you're pasting
a link to the web page instead of an image.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

And if you just paste and can ever the the picture in your document, then
Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink it.

 

[Rob]

I've been following this thread because something similar happened to me
after I installed SP2 and the JPEG security update. Previously I WAS able to
copy/paste a jpg image from a website into a Word document. Now I get the
hyperlink coding without the image. When I followed the earlier suggestion
to do a Paste Special, it worked, but the document was 2x the original size -
the Paste Special inserted the picture as a BMP file, whereas a simple Paste
previously gave me a jpg file. This only started happening after the recent
updates. Is there any way to restore the original functionality so I can go
back to simple pasting?

 

[Leea]

I have a similar problem as well. In the computer lab at the school where I
work, I have one machine that won't copy & paste pictures (Office 2000
programs). When I copy & paste a jpg from a digital camera it shows up as a
box with the filename in it. If I use Insert...Picture...from file it works
fine. Can anyone help?