Images replaced by big red crosses in MS-Word
Images replaced by big red crosses in MS-Word
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Hi.
A few times now I've been working on documents containing a number of images to find at some point that some or all the images have been replaced by large red crosses (X).
There doesn't seem to be any consistent action which seems to trigger this - the last time it happened was just after I had updated my table of contents.
My images are mostly screen dumps. I'm using Word-97 (Office-97 actually) with service release 1 and NT 4 Workstation with service pack 4. The machine has a Pentium II 200MHz processor with 64Mb RAM. I'm usually running Word with another application (the one I'm getting the screen dumps from). Checking the resources in use I have around 30MB of RAM free with both applications running. Hard disk space is about 200MB free.
Anyone have the solution to this and ideally the reason it's happening?
A few times now I've been working on documents containing a number of images to find at some point that some or all the images have been replaced by large red crosses (X).
There doesn't seem to be any consistent action which seems to trigger this - the last time it happened was just after I had updated my table of contents.
My images are mostly screen dumps. I'm using Word-97 (Office-97 actually) with service release 1 and NT 4 Workstation with service pack 4. The machine has a Pentium II 200MHz processor with 64Mb RAM. I'm usually running Word with another application (the one I'm getting the screen dumps from). Checking the resources in use I have around 30MB of RAM free with both applications running. Hard disk space is about 200MB free.
Anyone have the solution to this and ideally the reason it's happening?
RE: Images replaced by big red crosses in MS-Word
techsupportgirl@home.com
RE: Images replaced by big red crosses in MS-Word
Thanks for responding.
RE: Images replaced by big red crosses in MS-Word
1) Redo the images (which is what I've had to do)
2) Make multiple back ups periodically (document 1.1, document 1.2, document 1.3)
The second one is the one that I've found has helped the most because I can go back and recover a slightly older version before the file got corrupted.
Linda Adams
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RE: Images replaced by big red crosses in MS-Word
What I don't understand is that if this is a file corruption (and it certainly seems that way) why is the text that immediately follows the image not damaged in any way and then why is the next image damaged, and so on...
Maybe the images are stored in a separate part of the document structure and the reference to it has become damaged? I don't know what the file structures are but someone from Microsoft may have the answers.
ANYONE FROM MICROSOFT OUT THERE?
RE: Images replaced by big red crosses in MS-Word
we've come across when pasting a plethora of Excel graphs into Word. I think it may be due to just a memory shortage where Word can't generate all of the images.
the saddest part about it is that someone at Microsoft (soon to be Mic, Ros, and Oft thanks to the courts) spent the time to actually program the dreaded red x function in.
Brian Famous
bfamous@ncdoi.net
RE: Images replaced by big red crosses in MS-Word
I've cursed every time it's happened to me ever since because I know it means more work for me and I really dislike redoing the same work when it shouldn't be necessary. I understand that commercial software is going to have bugs at first but Office '97 been around for quite some time now.
RE: Images replaced by big red crosses in MS-Word
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q162/3/49.asp
Dan
RE: Images replaced by big red crosses in MS-Word