Cannot See Images in Word, How to Resolve
Ever
placed images in Word documents and then not been able to see
the images, or maybe your just reading a document created by
someone else and the same thing occurs.
The problem can affect
Microsoft Word versions 97 – 2000 – 2002 or XP – 2003 and
2007.
The reason this occurs
is due to Microsoft’s layered approach to documents, each
document consists of 3 layers,
The text layer, the
header/footer layer and the drawing layer that contains the
graphics.
Change the page
view to Print Layout View (this is the small selection of screen
settings at the bottom of the main word screen, hovering the
cursor over them will show which view they represent)
Make Sure Drawing is
Ticked
Word 97 – 2000 –
2002 or XP - 2003
Tools Menu – Options – View tab – under print and web layout
options make sure Drawings is ticked.
Word 2007
Home button – Word Options –
Advanced – scroll down to Show Document Content – Show drawing
and text boxes on screen
Make sure
Place Holders is not ticked – as a default picture
place holders forces Word to show an empty box in place of each
graphic within the document to help improve the scrolling
performance.
Word 97
– 2000 – 2002 or XP - 2003
Tools Menu – Options – View
tab – Under Show make sure Picture place holders is not
selected.
Word 2007
Home button – Word Options – Advanced – scroll down to Show
Document Content – then make sure Show Picture Place Holders is
not ticked.
Notes
 Word
2007 home button refers to the large circular symbol on the top
left with the Office logo in it
Optimizing Images
Once your images are showing within Word documents, it is
definitely worth making sure that any images are optimised for
the document.
Images which are large
make the overall size of the document large, which can give
problems making the document very slow to open and email.
Make sure any inserted
image is using a compressed format such as JPG or JPEG, rather
than BMP or Bitmap which offers no image compression meaning a
BMP image will probably be around 10 times the size of an
identical image saved as a JPG file.
If you are having more problems with images in word
why not contact us via our forum for more help.
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