OfficeXP and flipping images
Stuart Bailie
in to WordXP some images are flipped both vertically and horizontally. I
have found that the only reference that MS's KB has if for that of
Powerpoint. I had hopes that someone here would be able to help me out.
How can I make it so this doesn't happen any more? We currently have a
mixed office of both 2000 and XP and it looks like it could be this way for
a while due to the troubles that are cropping up in XP.
Suzanne S. Barnhill
the users who want to know how to flip images. <g>
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"Stuart Bailie" <sba...@newswire.ca> wrote in message
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Cindy Meister -WordMVP-
What's is the KB article you found for Powerpoint?
> I have found that when a document is created under Word2000 and then loaded
> in to WordXP some images are flipped both vertically and horizontally. I
> have found that the only reference that MS's KB has if for that of
> Powerpoint. I had hopes that someone here would be able to help me out.
>
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister
http://www.mvps.org/word
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Stuart Bailie
PPT2002: Image Appears Flipped in Presentation from Earlier Version of
PowerPoint (Q278550)
After looking in the KB again I didn't find anything that would further
help my problem.
Cindy Meister -WordMVP- <CindyM...@swissonline.ch> wrote in
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Beth Melton
Although this may not help 100%, but did you try the steps outlined in the article? In Word 2002 did you flip them so they were correct, save, and then reopen in Word 2000?
Otherwise what kind of images are they? Clipart? What happens if you ungroup the Clipart image and then group it again?
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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
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Stuart Bailie wrote in message ...
Stuart Bailie
The problem is that there are SO many documents that created here "in
house" and that e-mailed to us from outside our company that taking the
time out to check every document that gets sent to us would become
laboursome. We have too many documents to be able to just say "Just flip
the image back again."
From the productivity angle of things this is a pretty big negative.
If this is really a format that can be shared so easily, among Office
products, why is it that the backwards compatibility suffers so much to
make more effort when dealing with older documents.
I refuse to believe that this is a planned bug to annoy IT/IS into
upgrading their versions of Office just to avoid this bug.
"Beth Melton" <bme...@mvps.org> wrote in
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
What happens is that in previous versions of Office it
was possible to set the bit that records whether the
graphic is flipped, even though not all of the Office
apps could actually flip the graphic.
The problem is that there's no way for Word, or the
other apps to know if, when the file is opened, if
the bit was set intentionally, although based on the
version it was created in it can be a pretty good clue :)
Along with the Powerpoint 2002 article
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q278550
This is an Excel macro that can be used to re
set the flipped bits that I suspect Cindy or Beth can modify
(improve on) to work in Word on a single file or on
a folder full of documents, assuming that all of
the flipped graphics are unintended behavior,
'=================
Sub shape_flip()
Dim shp As Shape
For Each shp In ActiveSheet.Shapes
If shp.HorizontalFlip = msoTrue Then
shp.Flip (msoFlipHorizontal)
End If
If shp.VerticalFlip = msoTrue Then
shp.Flip (msoFlipVertical)
End If
Next
End Sub
'====================
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<<"Stuart Bailie" <sba...@newswire.ca> wrote in message news:Xns91B39AA04315E...@207.46.230.185...
Following the instructions isn't a problem, which does work.
The problem is that there are SO many documents that created here "in
house" and that e-mailed to us from outside our company that taking the
time out to check every document that gets sent to us would become
laboursome. We have too many documents to be able to just say "Just flip
the image back again."
From the productivity angle of things this is a pretty big negative.
If this is really a format that can be shared so easily, among Office
products, why is it that the backwards compatibility suffers so much to
make more effort when dealing with older documents.
I refuse to believe that this is a planned bug to annoy IT/IS into
upgrading their versions of Office just to avoid this bug. >>
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Hope that helps,
Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office Products family MVP
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