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XL2000: Scanned Picture Appears Zoomed When Printed

Article ID: 213883

Article Last Modified on 8/18/2005

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SYMPTOMS

When you print a worksheet that contains a picture, the picture appears to be zoomed in, on one quadrant of the printout.

This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:

You print a worksheet that contains an embedded picture such as a Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) or Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) file.

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The workbook was saved from Microsoft Excel 95 to the Microsoft Excel 2000 format.

To work around this problem, follow these steps:

Use the right mouse button to click (right-click) the embedded picture.
Point to Grouping and click Ungroup.
Click Yes when you receive the following message:

This is an imported picture, not a group. If you convert it into a Microsoft Office drawing, embedded data or linking information will be lost. Do you want to convert the object?

The worksheet that contains the picture will now print correctly.

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

Additional query words: xl97 xl95 scan image zoom big bigger large larger magnified TIF XL2000

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