Problem with pictures not showing in documents. They print okay.

[Sam the V U Man]

Whenever I create a document in Publisher (Office professional 2003), then
insert a picture, the picture does not show up until it prints out. If I
click within where I THINK the picture may be, I can then see the resizing
dots, but still no picture. Any way to fix this?

 

[Ed Bennett]

Whenever I create a document in Publisher (Office professional 2003),
then insert a picture, the picture does not show up until it prints
out. If I click within where I THINK the picture may be, I can then
see the resizing dots, but still no picture. Any way to fix this?

Check View > Pictures. If that fails...

This is almost certainly a problem with your video driver.

By going to Display Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot, and
dragging the Hardware Acceleration slider down three notches, you will be
able to disable Publisher from making the calls on the video driver that
cause this problem.

If this does fix your problem, it means that the problem does indeed lie
with the video driver. You can leave your computer running at this lower
hardware acceleration, but it may cause problems with other programs. It is
a better solution to try and find a driver update for your graphics card.
Normally, the latest drivers from the video card manufacturer will do the
trick, but ATI (and recently Intel and Dell) tend to be slower in perfecting
their
drivers, so some newer ATI and Intel cards to not yet have drivers available
that do not exhibit this behaviour. The solution here is to nag
ATI/Intel/Dell for better drivers.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Thanks a lot. I updated the driver on the ATI and all is well now.
I humbly bow to your knowledge. And thanks a bunch, too!

I'm glad the new driver helped - thanks for posting back

 

[LindaS]

Can I enter this discussion? I too am having the same problem, have changed
the settings and have no difference. I am having trouble understanding why I
can see pictures and images (drawn) in Word documents, but not in Publisher.
If it is a video driver, wouldn't the problem be with all picture images on
my computer??
Thanks! Linda