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Where Ms Word 2002 keeps images?

by samifox May 9, 2007 7:53AM PDT

Hi,

I have a word 2002 template with image I want to packge and send over the net. By packaging I mean to save the template and the images together so the other computer can open it and have the images placed correctly.

I don?t understand how Word keeps images? Does it make a copy and save it on a temp folder? Or does search for a linked image? Can anyone point it out for me?

Thanks
S

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Most times the images are inside the file
by ChuckT May 9, 2007 8:13AM PDT

Most times the images are inside the file. If the images are inside the file, even if it is a template, then there are no separate images tat you have to package.

I suppose you could make an image referenced and so it is not part of the file, and thus would have to be in a pointed to directory, but I can think of very few times I would ever want that. (When I was in the publishing industry, there was occasion where we wanted one image to show in the on-screen view, and another image when printed. But that is not typical.)

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(NT) so how the other pc can find the images if i dont deliver it
by samifox May 9, 2007 8:31AM PDT
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Not sure what you mean.
by ChuckT May 9, 2007 1:13PM PDT

What are you not delivering, if the pictures are IN the file already?

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i dont trust the way Word keep images
by samifox May 9, 2007 6:18PM PDT

so i deliver always the document and the images in the same folder.

its kind of mystory ' even if i delete the image , word still find it , it seems like word copy it to temp folder,
S

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Re: Word and images
by Kees Bakker May 9, 2007 6:35PM PDT

If you insert an image (Insert>Picture) into a Word document, it's kept inside the document (just have a look at the file size to be sure about that). Not in a temp folder at all. And - as you noticed - you can delete (or change) the original without any trouble, because it's safely inside the document. Nothing to be distrusted, in my opinion.

If you insert a picture as an object (Insert>Object, from file) you can choose between inserting a hyperlink to any location (a folder on your hard disk, or a location on the Internet) and inserting the full object. If you insert a hyperlink, it's linked to everytime you open the document, so you see a different object if you change it. And if you insert the object itself, it's copied to inside the Word document and stays unchanged, even if you delete or modify the original object on its original location.

Kees

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