WD97: How to Use Settings for Viewing and Printing Objects

ID: Q198048

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

This article discusses the Drawing Objects and Picture Placeholders settings. You can use these settings to control how quickly a document is displayed on screen and how it is printed.

In some cases, adjusting these settings may help you troubleshoot problems such as Clip Art or some other drawing object not printing, or your document appearing slowly. These settings also allow you to print only the text of a document that includes drawing objects.

MORE INFORMATION

Drawing Objects Setting:

Use this setting to control how quickly documents that contain drawing objects are printed or whether drawing objects are printed at all.

This setting affects objects in the drawing layer only; it does not affect any object in the text layer of your document.

Accessing the Drawing Objects Setting

To access the Drawing Objects setting, follow these steps:

On the Tools menu, click Options, and then select the Print tab.

Under Include With Document, click to select or clear the Drawing Objects check box.

What Happens When the Setting Is On (the Check Box Is Selected)

If this setting is turned on (selected), floating objects or any objects that you insert into your document from the Drawing toolbar are visible in page layout and print preview views. The objects are not visible in normal, outline, master document, or online layout view. All objects are printed.

What Happens When the Setting Is Off (the Check Box Is Cleared)

If this setting is turned off (the check box is cleared), drawing objects are not printed; therefore, the document should be printed faster.

The drawing objects are visible in page layout view, but they are not visible in print preview, and they are not printed.

Picture Placeholders Setting:

Use this setting to control the speed at which you can scroll through or display a document that contains graphics.

This setting does not affect objects in the drawing layers of your document, except for pictures inside a text box.

Accessing the Picture Placeholders Setting

To access the Picture Placeholders setting, follow these steps:

On the Tools menu, click Options, and then select the View tab.

Under Show, click to select or clear the Picture Placeholders check box.

What Happens When the Setting Is On (the Check Box Is Selected)

If this setting is turned on (selected), any picture in the text layer of your document or inside a text box is displayed as an empty box when viewed in page layout view. This speeds up scrolling through the document in page layout view. In print preview and when you print the document, the picture is visible.

What Happens When the Setting Is Off (the Check Box Is Cleared)

If this setting is turned off (the check box is cleared), all pictures are displayed and printed correctly; however, scrolling through the document may be slower.

REFERENCES

For additional information about objects in a document, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q107440 Pictures in the Text Layer Won't Display or Print

Q159942 WD97: General Info About Text Boxes and Frames in Word 97

Q157548 WD97: Objects in Converted Document Don't Display in Normal View

Q167738 WD97: Can't See or Manipulate Objects

Q157119 WD97: Pictures Visible Even When Picture Placeholders Check Box Selected

Additional query words: clipart, printing

Keywords : winword word97
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto