Picture Does Not Show in Word Picture Editor

• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c

SYMPTOMS

When you draw an object in Word, then convert the object to a picture, and then try to edit that picture in the Word Picture editor, the picture does not appear in the Word Picture document window.

CAUSE

The Word Picture editor always sets its margins to the default margins in your NORMAL.DOT, instead of using the document's margins. If the object you drew is larger than NORMAL.DOT's default margins, it will not show up in the Word Picture editor.

For example, if your drawing (at 100 percent scale) is 3 inches wide

     ---------|---------|---------|
    0         1         2         3

     ---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
    0         1         2         3         4         5

     ---------|---------|-----
    0         1         2

This problem only occurs with drawing objects, not with clip art.

WORKAROUNDS

Method 1: Redraw the picture so that its size is within the NORMAL.DOT

          default margins before you try to edit it in the Word Picture
          editor. (Note: Resizing the picture by reducing the scale will
          not work.)

          run the DrawDisassemblePicture macro. This will change the
          picture back to a drawing object. Reduce the size of the drawing
          object to fit within the NORMAL.DOT default margins, and then
          (with the object selected) choose the Create Picture button on
          the Drawing toolbar. Double-click the drawing to edit it.

          and taller than the picture.