How to get images to display in draft layout?

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.

OLE objects are not "images", they are "live" embedded editable objects. So they are being displayed by a different mechanism than static images pasted in the file.

Yes, I know they aren't images. I think that's what I said. But after breaking the OLE link to the mother application (Ctrl+Shift+F9), then they are images. That was the whole point. (sigh)

Good that you found a work around.

However, OLE objects are not "images", they are "live" embedded editable objects. So they are being displayed by a different mechanism than static images pasted in the file.

FYI, when you do a paste special, look on the left side of the dialog box (totally "intuitive"), there are 2 options " Paste" (default) and "Paste Link".  If you use "Paste Link", then changes made in the object are "linked" back to the source file.

I too used "normal" view by default in 2003 and earlier, and was not happy with the changes introduced in 2007.

I've since learned to work with "Web Layout" view as my default to make the best use of widescreen monitors.

I also use the "Outline View" a lot. To get the most out of it I also turn on the Advanced Option (Show document Content section) "Show text wrapped within document Window"

"Hide White Space" - When you are in Page Layout view, it shows the margins all around the page, including the top and bottom margins.  When you slowly drag your mouse pointer over the gap between pages it briefly switches to a white double headed arrow.  At that point if you double click, the top/bottom margin space "white space" is hidden.

Yes, MS has gotten arrogant. The 2007 introduction of the ribbon without the option of selecting a menu view was arrogant. The suppression of boot to desktop in Win 8, there was a registry hack that worked in the beta, but MS explicitly went out of it's way to kill that fix before RTM. Especially in light of their retreat in 8.1.  Killing the Start menu (no, the 8.1 "Start Button" is not an adequate recreation).  Metro ("Retro") is a pretty arrogant assumption that everyone has a touch screen computer.

Hiding white space hides the header and footer and everything anchored to them, as well as the space between pages. You can easily access it by just double-clicking between pages. If you don't like the effect, double-click on the page break line to reverse (there's also an Options setting for this, but it just mirrors the setting in the document).