Microsoft KB Archive/134451

= PUB: Incorrect Placement of Pictures in Converted Word Document =

Article ID: 134451

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Publisher 3.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q134451



SYMPTOMS
If you open a Word document that contains pictures, OLE objects, or tables in Publisher for Windows 95 or Microsoft Publisher 97, those pictures, OLE objects, or tables will appear in random places on the page.



CAUSE
Publisher is a frame-based program. A publication contains different frames that each contain a single type of information (text, picture, or OLE). The page position and size of each frame is saved in the publication.

Word, however, is not a frame-based program. A Word document contains a single stream of data that can contain text, pictures, and OLE information. There is no absolute page position information stored for pictures or tables.

When Publisher converts a Word document, it separates the pictures, tables, and OLE objects from the text and places them in their own frames. It can determine which page each of these frames belongs to. However, Publisher can't determine exactly where to place these frames on each page.

If you open a Word document in Publisher version 2.0 or 1.0, each graphic or OLE object is placed on a separate page.



WORKAROUND
After you open the document, you must manually drag each picture, table, or OLE frame to its proper position on the page.



STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: pub95 pub3 w_mspub mspub converter w_convert 6.00 2.00 7.00 graph bitmap TIFF PCX GIF move wrong place messed up mangled

Keywords: kbinterop kbprb kbusage KB134451

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