P
PEVA
Word 2000 is suddenly resizing pictures as they are inserted to a size
smaller than necessary (i.e., according to margins; no graphics, text boxes
in the way, etc.).
The pictures are graphics (data plots) generated by a thrid-party program.
I set the height and width of the graphics in that program - am using the
same settings as always, and that program has not been updated/changed. I am
using the same methodology to insert the graphics from the third-party
program (Paste Special | Picture (AKA Windows Metafile)).
Left margin: 0.75"
Right margin: 0.5"
8.5 - (0.75+0.5) = 7.25 width for picture when pasted in.
Graphics width is set to 7.5" when copied in the third-party program - in
the past, Word has changed the size to 97% for 7.25 width - exactly as
expected and desired.
*NOW* those same graphics are getting reduced to 80% for a 6" width when
pasted into Word with the same margins (7.25" space) and absolutely nothing
(text boxes, etc.) in the way. I even opened an older document in which the
same graphics had been inserted correctly, and when inserting the same
graphics again into that document, they get reduced to the 6" width (80%).
I also played around with setting the graphics widths to different values in
the third-party program - the results are that they get downsized to 6" wide
if anything larger than 6" in width, and get pasted in at the stipulated size
if under 6" in width - exaclty as would be expected if the margins were in
further than they are or a text box was in the way - but that is not the case.
Also, I have tried changing various settings in Tools | Options | General |
Web Options | Pictures with no effect on the results.
Based on this experience - and, BTW, on some recent postings by others
scratching their heads over a similar type of change in behavior - I am
wondering if an Office Update messed something up in Word to cause this
incorrect behavior.
Any ideas at all on what to look for in these docs. that would be (so far)
unexplainably sizing the pictures down more than necessary by the known rules?
TIA!
smaller than necessary (i.e., according to margins; no graphics, text boxes
in the way, etc.).
The pictures are graphics (data plots) generated by a thrid-party program.
I set the height and width of the graphics in that program - am using the
same settings as always, and that program has not been updated/changed. I am
using the same methodology to insert the graphics from the third-party
program (Paste Special | Picture (AKA Windows Metafile)).
Left margin: 0.75"
Right margin: 0.5"
8.5 - (0.75+0.5) = 7.25 width for picture when pasted in.
Graphics width is set to 7.5" when copied in the third-party program - in
the past, Word has changed the size to 97% for 7.25 width - exactly as
expected and desired.
*NOW* those same graphics are getting reduced to 80% for a 6" width when
pasted into Word with the same margins (7.25" space) and absolutely nothing
(text boxes, etc.) in the way. I even opened an older document in which the
same graphics had been inserted correctly, and when inserting the same
graphics again into that document, they get reduced to the 6" width (80%).
I also played around with setting the graphics widths to different values in
the third-party program - the results are that they get downsized to 6" wide
if anything larger than 6" in width, and get pasted in at the stipulated size
if under 6" in width - exaclty as would be expected if the margins were in
further than they are or a text box was in the way - but that is not the case.
Also, I have tried changing various settings in Tools | Options | General |
Web Options | Pictures with no effect on the results.
Based on this experience - and, BTW, on some recent postings by others
scratching their heads over a similar type of change in behavior - I am
wondering if an Office Update messed something up in Word to cause this
incorrect behavior.
Any ideas at all on what to look for in these docs. that would be (so far)
unexplainably sizing the pictures down more than necessary by the known rules?
TIA!