Hey all,

I have a user who's getting strange text in her MS Word documents. When she copies an image from IE and pastes it into a new Word doc. the picture does not appear. Instead, a code of sorts appears instead:


{ Define the page structure.
INCLUDE PICTURE "http://www....etc.etc.etc..../xyz.gif"\*MERGEFORMATINET
}


Print preview shows the image just fine. It also prints the image without problem.

Is there a setting within MS Word that would do this? A "reveal codes," like from the days of WP? I thought Word didn't have that.

She's running MS Office 2003 on Windows XP. She uses IE6.0.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled Office once already.

Thanks for anything,

~Andrew

If she wants the picture itself instead of the link to it, click Edit > Paste Special and select the appropriate selection. Otherwise it just posts a reference to it.

Is there a setting that determines reference vs picture??? I have never seen/heard of such a thing. I just copied the Google logo out of IE7 into MS Word 2003, with not trouble. CTRL + C and CTRL + V. No Paste Special.

Is there a setting that determines reference vs picture??? I have never seen/heard of such a thing. I just copied the Google logo out of IE7 into MS Word 2003, with not trouble. CTRL + C and CTRL + V. No Paste Special.

Did you check to see if it really embedded the pic or set a reference to the location of the pic?

By embedded vs reference, do you mean the difference between an image hosted and referred to by HTML on a website and an image hosted by one server and referred to by HTML in by another site?

If you open this link in IE (http://www.oralchelation.net/images/bs00554_.jpg), copy the image, paste it into Word, you see an image. I don't. I see that reference.

~Andrew

By embedded vs reference, do you mean the difference between an image hosted and referred to by HTML on a website and an image hosted by one server and referred to by HTML in by another site?

If you open this link in IE (http://www.oralchelation.net/images/bs00554_.jpg), copy the image, paste it into Word, you see an image. I don't. I see that reference.

~Andrew

Not sure, but there may be some default for pasting that you have. If you select Paste Special you should be able to select FILE which should embed the picture.

I looked all over for the answer and found nothing. I was able to fix this problem by opening Microsoft Word and Clicking:

'Help' => 'Detect and Repair...' => Uncheck 'Restore My Shortcuts While Repairing', Check 'Discard My Custom Settings and Restore Default Settings'

The tool will prompt you to close Word (and any other Office programs) and will restore the default settings. (It never asked me for the Office disk, but it looks like it might for some people)

Warning: This will also discard your Outlook settings, so you'll have to set it up again.