Microsoft Office MetaFile Filter update may not work in some cases

A recent Microsoft Tech Support document covers the following symptom: When you open a document in one of the Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition programs, the pictures in the document do not appear correctly but instead contain missing or broken lines or details." It offers the same solution as for the TIFF problem reported here last time: get the updated MetaFile Filter. However, John Chen claims that the updated Filter did not fix this problem for him.

Similarly, Ted Burger writes: "The Office 98 MetaFile update does not fix everything. I am having trouble opening some Word documents that have a graphic for the logo. Word opens the document and displays the text, but when it attempts to convert the EMF logo, the entire Mac freezes. Force Quit does not work."