Unable to Use Crop Handles in Publisher 2010

Anonymous
2010-08-04T13:54:32+00:00

I recently upgraded to Publisher 2010.  I know they redesigned the crop feature (with fit and fill), but I cannot seem to do a simple crop.  When I click on "Crop", the crop handles appear momentarily on the selected object, then disappear, and the standard resize handles (white dots) reappear.  Hope this makes sense.  It seems like there is a simple answer/solution - I'm sure I'm missing something.  Thanks in advance for your help.

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Anonymous
2010-08-04T14:13:04+00:00

The crop option is the same as it has in all versions of Publisher with the exception the cropped part is visible. Right-click your image, click on the crop symbol. It is also on the ribbon when you click on Picture Tools.

You cannot crop drawn autoshapes unless you convert them to pictures.

I don't know why your crop handles appear then disappear. Does this happen on all pictures? If you re-insert the troublesome image, do the crop handles work?

Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-01-19T17:52:52+00:00

    Errrr, hello... MVP's???? Can you please comment or are we left alone to deal with MS' bugs as usual?

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-01-06T13:43:46+00:00

    So now that "we" have done Microsoft's job in finding out what the bug actually is, how do we alert them to this fact and ask them to sort it out?

    Would an MVP please comment on this?

    Rich

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-01-06T13:42:53+00:00

    Rich,

    So glad this fixed your problem but I can't take the credit.  It was my client who found the issue.

    This is definitely something that MS needs to address.  MS - finish what you started and upgrade all your programs to work with Windows 7!

    Happy cropping Rich.

      Sue

    Thanks Sue!

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-01-04T19:03:45+00:00

    Yes ... MapPoint was also causing this for us.  Thanks!

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