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I am a "newbie," as they say, with my first real TW
job. I have been reading this list and the archives
for a few months, trying to get myself up-to-speed on
all the things they don't teach you in college about
TW.
That said, I am currently stumped and would appreciate
help. I have searched and searched to try and solve
this on my own, but there's something I'm just not
"getting."
Here's the issue:
- Working in Word 2000
- Creating standard User Manuals for software app
- Only have Paint (groan) for screenshots (although I
downloaded a freeware converter, Pic2Pic, so I can
choose some other file formats)
I'm trying to link all of my graphics, as many of you
suggest (I like the usability this method provides).
So far so good. I have to be able to email manuals to
customers, customers who don't accept .zip files or
don't want to handle graphics files. So, I tried
going into to Edit > Links to make this work...but
wait!! For some reason, the Links option isn't
active!
I have inserted the pictures as links. I have then
formatted the picture layout to "Tight." I also
create boxes, labels, arrows, etc., to attach to the
picture and then Group them.
I know that I'm doing something to cause this inactive
Links option, I just don't know what!
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