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Subject:Lost graphics in MS Word From:Jean Weber <jean -at- wrevenge -dot- com -dot- au> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:55:38 -0700
Keith Soltys corrected notes,
>Finally, if you are embedding the graphics in your document, you should
>switch to linking the files instead. This will greatly reduce the size of
>your document and reduce the chances of document corruption.
Unfortunately, what many people do is capture a screen and paste it into a
Word
file without creating a separate graphic file, so there is nothing to link to.
That's a quick and dirty way of creating documents, but contributes to the
sort
of problem the original poster mentioned.
But even if people do create separate graphic files and link to them, they can
(and often do) lose the graphic files or fail to archive them along with the
doc file, so they are no better (and sometimes worse) off than if they
embedded
the graphics. This is a common problem when dealing with old documents,
especially in the many organizations that don't follow good file control
procedures..
I know Keith knows that, but for those with less experience it's worth noting
the possible pitfalls of linking to graphics. I'm sure the archives are
full of
discussions of the pros and cons of different ways of dealing with the
problem.
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