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Subject:Re: Red X-marks in Word From:"Flood, Laura" <Laura -dot- Flood -at- WESTGROUP -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 18 Jun 1998 06:34:20 -0500
While it is true that installing SR-1 will in most instances prevent the
red X-marks, they can still occur.
A direct quote from the MS Knowledge Base article (Q162349) entitled
WD97: Picture Displayed as Red "X" in Document:
"This problem occurs most often with inserted bitmap (.bmp) files or
pasted graphics. Note, however, that this behavior may also occur with
other graphics formats.
Word uses either a red "X" or a general picture (a circle, square, and
triangle) to represent any graphic or picture it cannot display. Word
will not be able to display corrupted or damaged graphics or may lose
picture data in low memory or low resource situations. "
Laura K. Flood
Technical Writer
Common Tools & Services Development
West Group
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Rochester, NY 14694
Phone: 716-546-5530
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Email: laura -dot- flood -at- westgroup -dot- com
The views, opinions, and judgments expressed in this message are solely
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approved by West Group.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeroen Hendrix [mailto:jhe -at- MEDIASYS -dot- NL]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 7:54 AM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Re: Red X-marks in Word
The red X is a bug (one of the many), it has nothing to do with the way
you insert or paste an image. The only way to get rid of this annoyance
is to install the Service release pack (Srv1off97.exe). This will get
rid of several bugs in Office '97.
But not all as Microsoft found out, so they released a patch for the
service release (now that's service!); called the sr1offup.exe.
Installing both of them will remove most bugs Microsoft knows about (or
acknowledges).
You can download both from their site, if you can't find them, I could
mail them to you.
Greetings,
Jeroen Hendrix
Technical Communications
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