Inserted Object images are truncated. (97sr2)

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Hi all,

On my (and other users) PC’s, when I insert an ABC flowchart image into a new document as a linked object, the image is inserted.
The inserted image however is about 2.7 x 13 cm wide/high, not the full size of the graphic to be inserted.
Dragging the image handles only changes the zoom, not the displayed area of the chart.

If i were to delete/rename normal dot the image is inserted correctly, also if I were to use another template other than normal dot, everything is OK.

As you can see I have a work around, my question is about why this occurs.
Has anyone any ideas.

A sample of the offending word doc is attached…

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Perhaps your Normal.dot has become corrupt. Your document caused my Word 2002 to behave strangely (apart from the message that the source object could not be found); one time I got warnings that the system was low on resources and the document wasn’t opened; another time Word crashed; yet another time the document opened but it took a very long time.

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HansV,

I hope I did not cause your machine any long term harm.

I was hoping that this is not the case but I suppose I will err on the side of caution and delete normal dot.

Thanks for your time & effort on this.

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Hi Kieran,

No, nothing serious happened, it was just your document. If you have a backup copy of Normal.dot you can try loading that.

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hi Kieran,

i don’t know why it occurs, but if you enter a negative cropping value (!) for the right margin in the format->opbject dialog box, the entire image will be displayed. maybe setting standard formatting properties for obejcts also sets the cropping margins for to be inserted objects?

greetings,

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Hi Pieter:
That’s strange. I did that with no difference than if I had dragged the right border. I experienced results similar to Hans (but with Word 2000). I assumed it was because Word was looking for a non-existent source. Funny, I didn’t lose my image, even though the source couldn’t be found, so the object must be imbeded as well as linked.

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