RE: Word 2007 image issue

[Heather Anderson <Heather -dot- Anderson -at- cubrc -dot- org>]

Actually, this just led me to a fix.

Taking all the images out isn't an option as I have til Monday EoB to finish the document and I'm not the original writer on it, so I have no idea what all the images would be named.

However, remove space before paragraph seems to work wonders.

I don't know why I didn't try that earlier.

Thanks !

~ Heather


-----Original Message-----
From: Monique Semp [mailto:monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 2:48 PM
To: Heather Anderson; Gene Kim-Eng; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Word 2007 image issue

First thing I'd do is change the workflow from copy-paste images to Insert
Picture.

(And in Word 2007, it's easy to extract all the images: just copy the .DOCX
file to .ZIP, open the newly-created ZIP in WinZip, and extract all the
desired images to your directory.)

It's the copy-paste that may be causing some of this because Word can
interpret the formatting many ways: from the source para, from the
destination para, and I think it may even depend on whether the destination
location is within any sort of (bulleted or numbered) list.  These options
are controlled in the Word Options > Advanced > Cut, copy, and Paste
section.  But try as I might, even setting these as I think I want them
often results in surprises anyway.  And it may be that the picture's layout
options are somehow being carried along when you do the copy/paste.

I've found that I can virtually eliminate these sorts of things by *not*
using copy/paste for images.  I have every image file on my disk, and then
use Insert > Picture to put it in the doc.  And when I do that, the
paragraphs settings seem to "stick".

Interested to hear other's approaches,
-Monique


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