Microsoft KB Archive/224770

= WD2000: Picture Editor Change Appears to Be Ignored =

Article ID: 224770

Article Last Modified on 12/6/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q224770



SYMPTOMS
When you change your picture editor in Word and then try to edit an existing picture in a document, the new picture editor is not used for editing the picture. Instead, the picture editor used is the one used to edit the picture previously.

For example:
 * 1) You edit a picture in a document using Microsoft Word as your picture editor.
 * 2) You then change the picture editor to Microsoft Photo Editor.
 * 3) When you edit the picture again (on the Edit menu, click Edit Picture), Microsoft Word is used as the picture editor instead of Microsoft Photo Editor.

NOTE: To change the default program for editing imported graphics, follow these steps:


 * 1) On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Edit tab.
 * 2) In the Picture editor box, click the program you want to use to modify imported graphics, and then click OK.



CAUSE
This behavior is by design. When you edit a picture with a picture editor, the picture becomes associated with its editor.

For example, if you edit a picture using Microsoft Word and press ALT+F9 to view the field code of the picture, you see the following field:

{ EMBED Word.Picture.8 }

If you edit a picture using Microsoft Photo Editor and then press ALT+F9 to view the field code of the picture, you see the following field:

{ EMBED MSPhotoEd.3 }



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, you must unlink the picture field to change the picture editor used for a picture previously edited in a document.

To unlink the picture, do the following:
 * 1) Click to select the picture.
 * 2) Press CTRL+SHIFT+F9.

NOTE: After performing the steps above, change the picture editor to the picture editor you want to use before you try to edit the picture.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: missing seems

Keywords: kbnofix kbprb KB224770

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