Small but annoying!

Bawnmore

Im using Microsoft word and im trying to insert a print screen thats 8mb but it keeps disappearing once i insert it into the document. Ne ideas?????????????????????

Capt'n Midnight

Asking the stupid question
you are pressing PrtScr or Alt+PrtScr and then Ctrl-V in the other app ?
you aren't trying to do a print screen of a protected doc
- if in adobe acrobat reader check the document security properties

Try using wordpad in accessories instead. (Start - Run - Write )
Save the file and open it in word.

If wordpad works then it's a word foible , other wise might be something in the background.

You could then try paint just to see the image.

seamus

Paste it into mspaint, save it as .jpg and try inserting it into the Word doc.

Bawnmore

Any help with this is really appreciated. When i insert a picture into MS Word, everythinh goes well. But if i scroll down from the picture and back up again the picture will have disappeared. It will still be there but it will not be visible. Any suggestions to fix this????

Bawnmore

Thanks for the advice but its still not working! Iv put a more accurate thread up describing the problem called "small but annoying" so if you want to take a look at it and have a think! Thanks again for the help, its really appreciated.

Orion

watching this topic - I get this occasionally in work and haven't found a fix for it yet. Office XP SP3 here.

Don't get it in OO.o at home

Bawnmore

ya its not a big problem but it is really irritating not knowing what it is so hopefully someone will know!

formatman

can't test the theory now but there is a setting in display properties ...show contents of windows while scolling/resizing , you could try that as the it may be a video driver issue

Bawnmore

in control panel

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>display????? where exactly is it because i cant find it here anyway! If you get a chance please look into it! Thanks again!

formatman

what version of windows and what version of word

Bawnmore

im running windows xp professional sp1 with office xp

formatman

display properties apearence effects , don't think it will make a difference now though

what view are you running in word ( normal , print layout , web etc ) ?

and are the pictures jpegs or bitmaps or tiffs ?

formatman

try in word also , tools , options view , and tick untick picture placeholders

also , search for normal.dot when word is closed , delete it and then restart word

Bawnmore

it happens with every file type. il give it a try and get back to you. thanks again

Capt'n Midnight

Bawnmore wrote:

im running windows xp professional sp1 with office xp

Shouldn't that be office XP SP3 ?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=85AF7BFD-6F69-4289-8BD1-EB966BCDFB5E&displaylang=en
Download Size: 16441 KB - 58925 KB
Or if you download 73MB you can get openoffice http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

You still haven't said if it works in Wordpad / Paint or if only happens in word.

Try saving the printscreen as each of the file types word can insert picture as.
Try logging on as a different user in case your profile is corrupt
Try safe mode
Try deleting Normal.Dot - std. word template
Try changing the page setup size to A3 landscape
Try changing the default printer - WYSIWYG mar dhéa - pdf995 or pdfcreator
Try http://www.annoyances.org


OpenOffice has annoyances too, but at least they tell you that it's a beta version and they'll refund you the cost price if they can't fix it.

Bawnmore

no it just happens in word! il try again tommorrow and report back because im a little busy at the moment!
Thanks again!

Bawnmore

could it be that i have too little memory or too many applications running?????