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
    2013-12-16T16:51:52+00:00

    I have experienced the same issue.

    In our environment we also had MS Mappoint installed (as mention in an earlier post)

    This was the issue for us.

    conflict with mappoint intergration

    disabled MS Mappoint add-in within Publisher and able to crop there after

    If you do not have MS Mappoint install maybe check your  add-ins anyway and try disabling.

    Hope this can help someone.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-08-27T00:20:34+00:00

    2.5 years later and still no solution...

    For those using Office 2013, still the same issue.

    Fortunately, if you actually use MapPoint, you really don't need to uninstall it. You can simply disable the MapPoint add-in from Publisher. No restart or anything else required! Crop handles show and stay in place afterwards.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-06-14T15:39:54+00:00

    Just wanted to say thanks SADell, what a ridiculous solution. Followed your advise and uninstalled MapPoint (which I don't use anyway) and just like magic - the crop tool handles appear and work fine.

    Bit of a worry though, Microsoft software conflicting with itself...

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