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Given that you said "way back" it's possible that you were using Word 97,
which had a notorious bug that frequently caused this problem. You can get
rid of the bug by installing the SR-1 update to Office 97 or a more recent
version of Office/Word; unfortunately, this will not restore the corrupted
graphics and you will have to reinsert them into the document.
The problem can also be caused by saving when your system resources are low.
You may be able to recover some of the graphics by right-clicking on them
and selecting Edit.
For more detailed information on this problem, see the article on the
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ site at http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/RedX.htm. I highly recommend this
site for any Word users - it's the best collection of information about Word
that I've seen anywhere on the Web. You can find a link to it on the DTP
page of my web iste, URL in my sig below.
Finally, if you are embedding the graphics in your document, you should
switch to linking the files instead. This will greatly reduce the size of
your document and reduce the chances of document corruption.
Regards
Keith
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Now at http://www.soltys.ca/techcomm.html
I'm out of work and looking for a job or contract in Toronto
>
> hi all,
> Way back , i had written a 200 page Trainers manual and it is in MS
> word.The images in the documnent were screen shots which were pasted
> when a particular application was run using the print screen +ctrl+ alt
> method .
> After a long time i need to print the document once again and i
> discovered that in places where the images/screen captures should exist
> a red cross marks is appearing.
>
> what i want to know now is whether the screen captures have to pasted
> all over again or is there any method by which i can retrieve those
> images.?
>
> please reply
> thanx rohini
>
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