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I have a large word file with numerous pictures inserted as TIFF files. In Word 2010, the pictures are all visible on screen and when I print them. However, when opening the same file (saved as docx or doc - I've tried both) in Word 2013 not all pictures are visible and they don't convert to pdf or print out either. It varies between which ones are and which aren't so I don't think its a problem with the pictures themselves. The pictures come up as either blank white boxes or with a little red cross and the statement 'error picture cannot be displayed'.
All files are less than half a page and therefore shouldn't be affected by the error involving multipage TIFF files that I've seen mentioned.
I've formatted them as 'tight', however I've tried the other options and this doesn't appear to change anything.
I've also been through the advanced settings options and deselected 'show pictures as placeholders'.
I'm not sure what else to do - I've tried playing around with all sorts including changing privacy options within the trust center. Any advice would be very much appreciated - I wish I'd just stuck with Word 2010!
Many thanks
Hannah
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Timothy is not the OP (Hannah). He has been piggybacking on her post since the beginning of page 2. Hannah has posted only once since then, to reply to his post asking if she'd reached a solution.
Apart from your assertions, I have seen no evidence that Word 2013 is inadequate for large documents with lots of images embedded.
Doug,
No, the pictures are not visible in 2010 and were never visible in 2010.
Can we forget about 2010 as I only tried to open the file in 2010 out of desperation after someone mention along the way that their images reappeared in 2010.
I created the document in 2013, the pictures disappeared in 2103 and the computer I am using has 2103.
I would really like to know why Word 2013 is inadequate for large documents with lots of images imbedded.
It should come with a warning to say "insert too many images and they will start to randomly disappear"!
That would have been nice and saved me some time. I could have used a more appropriate software from the get go.
I don't think it is too much to ask that a software package for creating documents with words and pictures can actually have words and pictures in it. I should get a refund.
How hard is it? Insert picture, then you would reasonably expect the picture to be inserted and to stay inserted. Its not a difficult process, so where have all the pictures gone?????????
Why!
Why!
Why!
I understood from your original post that "In Word 2010, the pictures are all visible on screen" and when you print them. That however was not the case in Word 2010 here with the document downloaded from your OneDrive.
Doug,
The original document was created in Word 2013 and then the images started disappearing. I then (after reading some of the previous thread to this chat) opened it on another computer with Word 2010 to see if the images would reappear in 2010, but they didn't of course. So I don't have a 2010 version apart from the 2013 version which was subsequently opened and saved in 2010. This sounds like it would be a file corrupted by 2013 and just saved as 2010 with all the issues from 2013 saved as well.
Cheers