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Jim Backus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The copy of Word I use at work has a very annoying problem - if a 
> document has pictures of any sort they display sporadically. Sometimes
> the picture can be made to appear by scrolling down and up again but 
> this doesn't work reliably. Sometimes the pictures display without a 
> problem and on other occasions they never display. This applies to all
> sorts of pictures - .GIF, .JPG, embedded Visio drawings, even Word 
> pictures. As the documents I work on usually have a number of pictures
> it is very annoying and lowers productivity.
> 
> The PC is running Windows XP at SP2. Word is version 2002 at SP3. The 
> PC is a reasonably modern small form factor HP with 512 MB Ram.
> 
> Word is set up to display paragraph marks and tabs only (i.e. not all 
> hidden items)
> 
> As it's a work PC, there is no option to upgrade to Vista, Word 2007 
> or Open Office until the company as a whole upgrades.
> 
> I've contacted our Hell Desk and they admit they've seen the problem 
> before but cannot remember the solution.
> 
> So ... have the great minds and experience of these NGs got any 
> suggestions?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jim

I have seen a similar problem and my conclusion was that it seemed to be 
a "feature" introduced by a combination of Word (2000/2003) and HP 
printer drivers. There was an additional feature that caused overlapping 
pictures to be printed with the layers in the wrong order - useless :-(

If you have HP printers and others, it could be worth setting the 
default printer to the "other" make, or even temporarily installing an 
Apple laserwriter as default to check.

I have also seen problems arise where the printer is networked - 
everything was slow to load, which included windows explorer.

PeeGee
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