Microsoft KB Archive/215609

= XL2000: WMF Image Inserted as Background Appears Very Large =

Article ID: 215609

Article Last Modified on 9/25/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q215609



SYMPTOMS
When you insert a Windows Metafile (*.wmf) image as a background image on a worksheet, the image appears to be very large.

There are several possible drawbacks to this behavior:
 * The file size may increase substantially.
 * You may see degraded performance.
 * You may receive out of memory errors if your computer does not have sufficient resources to display the large image.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, open the image in an image editing program, such as Windows Paint, resize it, and then save it as a bitmap (*.bmp) image. You can then insert the bitmap image on the background.



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: XL2000 wmf graphic watermark

Keywords: kbbug kbpending kbgraphic KB215609

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