Hi, I have a few computers that will not display .bmp files at all when performing an Insert - Create from File (click check box to link to file) - Browse to a .bmp file and click Insert. On some computers this works fine - the image is displayed. On others it only displays a small all black square and the file name underneath (as an example signat.bmp). All computers working and not are running Word 2003 Service Pack 3 and patched current. I've checked the options as well and haven't found anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
"JohnMed" wrote: > Hi, > > I have a few computers that will not display .bmp files at all when > performing an Insert - Create from File (click check box to link to file) - > Browse to a .bmp file and click Insert. On some computers this works fine - > the image is displayed. On others it only displays a small all black square > and the file name underneath (as an example signat.bmp). All computers > working and not are running Word 2003 Service Pack 3 and patched current. > I've checked the options as well and haven't found anything. Any help would > be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Hi John I've been hitting this problem as well, three weeks ago I could insert .bmp files that had been saved in Photoshop straight into Access, then suddenly all the new files started to display the way you describe, the already inserted files still display perfectly BUT if you cut them out and then try to reload the exact same .bmp file the display is corrupted. The only way round this I have found is to open Ms paint (shudder!), open up the .bmp you saved in photoshop and resave it in Paint (I suppose there had to be SOME use for Paint some time!) Make sure you save as 24bit as it seems to be that Access is not accepting 256col images all of a sudden (I'm using greyscales). Sometimes even when you do this it is still corrupted, if so go back and resave in Paint. Our Tech support won't admit to installing service pack 3 and thought that deleting my profile would help (ha ha). As this problem only started a few weeks back I think something somewhere has been "updated" with new "undisclosed features" Enjoy all the extra work of going through your files and saving them again, I have only three weeks left on my contract to finish building my database and getting it up and running -no stress. Cheers Jane
Hi John, Are you using Insert=>Picture from File or Insert=>Object=>Create from File ? The first would be the usual/preferred approach. ============== <<"JohnMed" wrote in message news:686F97D8-AC40-4C37-B6B0-D8798C0295DF@microsoft.com... Hi, I have a few computers that will not display .bmp files at all when performing an Insert - Create from File (click check box to link to file) - Browse to a .bmp file and click Insert. On some computers this works fine - the image is displayed. On others it only displays a small all black square and the file name underneath (as an example signat.bmp). All computers working and not are running Word 2003 Service Pack 3 and patched current. I've checked the options as well and haven't found anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. << -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
Hi Bob, The reason I insert it this way is I need to maintain a link to this file, as it changes each time our application opens the word file with this signat.bmp which is populated with different signature each time. "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: > Hi John, > > Are you using Insert=>Picture from File or Insert=>Object=>Create from File ? > The first would be the usual/preferred approach. > > ============== > <<"JohnMed" wrote in message news:686F97D8-AC40-4C37-B6B0-D8798C0295DF@microsoft.com... > Hi, > > I have a few computers that will not display .bmp files at all when > performing an Insert - Create from File (click check box to link to file) - > Browse to a .bmp file and click Insert. On some computers this works fine - > the image is displayed. On others it only displays a small all black square > and the file name underneath (as an example signat.bmp). All computers > working and not are running Word 2003 Service Pack 3 and patched current. > I've checked the options as well and haven't found anything. Any help would > be greatly appreciated. Thanks. << > -- > > Bob Buckland ?:-) > MS Office System Products MVP > > *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* > > >
Hi John, Using Insert=>Picture=>From file also has an option on the [Insert|v] button to link to the graphic, but it doesn't include the overhead of an embedded application. ========== <<"JohnMed" wrote in message news:459075A4-59EB-4566-B816-E8DB980E82DD@microsoft.com... Hi Bob, The reason I insert it this way is I need to maintain a link to this file, as it changes each time our application opens the word file with this signat.bmp which is populated with different signature each time. << -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
