How to get images to display in draft layout?

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What you can do is post a suggestion for Microsoft to change the behavior of Draft view (formerly Normal view). Try the feedback forms at http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Office/feedback.aspx?formID=375 and https://feedback.office.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scrx=1.

Whatever. It sounds like a distinction without a difference to me.

It seems like it's important to you to defend or justify M$FT's decision to cripple Normal view. For me, M$FT has removed function for no good reason that I can see. But then I am not an apologist.

You can have the last word. I am done with this discussion.

PS: Does it bother you that this forum software always positions you at the first post in any thread? This thread is now up to 3 pages, which means that I have to page forward 3 times to get the the latest posts. I quick search reveals that this was reported at least as long ago as last February. It's still broken. There were several pages of comments. Most complaining about the forum software, but a few apologists offering workarounds or claiming that everything is fine. Everything is not fine. This is the absolute worst forum software I have ever used. In addition to the positioning problem, it has minimal word processing capability. No doubt you will give me some workaround or tell me it is working just fine. I have an extensive collection of workarounds for the myriad deficiencies and outright bugs in M$FT software. Bye.

It is an "image" only in the sense that any other graphical representation of data on the screen (e.g., characters arranged to form words) is an image. 

What you have is an embedded OLE object.  It is an inlineshape with type enumeration 1. Unlike say a "picture" of your house that you might insert in a documet which would be an inlineshape with type enumertion 3.

The embedded OLE object can be make to appear in Draft mode.  You've shown that. The picture or image of your house can't.

CTRL+SHIFT+F9 does not convert and OLE object into a plain image.  CTRL+SHIFT+F9 breaks the hyperlink.  Basically your object linked and embedded is now just an object embedded.   

How is that functionally different from an image?

Jennifer,

"Yes, I know they aren't images.  I think that's what I said."

Actually you said that they were images several times.  You said:

"I just discovered another way to insert images into a .docx document ..." 

"First, let's insert an image from Excel:"

"Click OK. The image should be visible in the document just like is it ..."

"Select the image. It will have square black handles."

"Press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to convert the image from an Excel object to a plain image ..., but the image should remain visible in both Normal and Page mode.

"This capability is ended when they are converted to a plain image using Ctrl+Shift+F9"

but most importantly  you said:

"It is clearly not true that images cannot be displayed in Normal view."

It is true that you have discovered for yourself some useful features of OLE, but you have not discovered a new way to insert images into a .docx document and unless you want to believe that any visual representation of data in Draft veiw is an "image" then it remains true that images cannot be displayed in Draft view.

CTRL+SHIFT+F9 does not convert and OLE object into a plain image.  CTRL+SHIFT+F9 breaks the hyperlink.  Basically your object linked and embedded is now just an object embedded.