HELP! MS Word HATES my images! Solution?

Question

Anytime I paste an image onto a word document the image just disappears! It's there, I can see the edge lines, but it just doesn't show, even in preview print mode. It's just blank, white, nothing is there. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Hopefully this helps you: http://www.officearticles.com/word/missing_graphics_in_microsoft_word.htm

Answer 2

you might get some clues from this:

use insert for jpg files - INSERT(on toolbar)>picture>file
use paste for clipboard- cntrol+V

Making a Tutorial
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Ok i use screen print a lot to make tutorials in word documents for my own reference.

If you want the whole screen press screen print key. (located above the INSERT key).

If you only want a picture of a popup window hold the Alt key and press screen print.

To dump them in your word doc, click the curser into the word doc.

Press [cntrl V] keys (which is paste) and it pastes in .

Hilite the pic so you can shrink the pic on the diagonal to fit a better size.

In word select the toolbar "picture" On this tool bar is the crop menu so you can crop out unwanted parts.
Remember to always adjust the pic only on the diagonal to keep it in proportion. If you stuff up paste it again.

Adjust the size of the pic so you can type text down one side.

While the pic is hilited, Right click the pic and select -format
In the layout tab, select - square (this allows text down the side)
and select the bullet "right" to locate the pic.

In the size tab, take note of the height. (Write it down)

On repeat dumping of the more pics, just hilite and format them to the same height and they will all look the same in the doc. (No need to do diagonal shrinking)

Note if you move a pic, even just a little, you have to set that "right" bullet again. This will ensure all the pics are lined up.

After a while you get quick at it.

Answer 3

hi :-) not sure if this will help but a similar thing happened to me once and this is what i did:

once you have pasted the image, make sure the picture toolbar is up. if it's not you can click on >view>toolbars>picture.

once the toolbar is up you will see a litte square button on there with a picture of a little black dog. press this button and a whole lot of options will come up.

press the square option and the image may appear.

hope this helps :-) it might not, but worth a try.

Answer 4

Sounds like a case of "Garbage in; garbage out".

What kind of image (file extension) is it? JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF or something else.

Is it just one particular image or any image?

Does it open properly in image editing programs?

Re-post and maybe we can help.

Answer 5

Have you tried actully printing it and seeing what it comes out like? try moving it round a bit and see what happens.

Answer 6

get a better image