Comments on: How to fix images not displaying in Microsoft Word 2007

By: Grant Gilchrist

Grant Gilchrist — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:53:47 +0000

Thank you so much! Like you, I thought it was a bug, especially since the Picture Tools – Format ribbon doesn’t appear any more. I was getting ready to uninstall Word and re-install because I thought a major piece of functionality had been corrupted. Thanks again!

By: snooz

snooz — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:08:07 +0000

wow, this was driving me nuts on several computers! many thank ye’s good sir

By: Kanchana

Kanchana — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:31:44 +0000

It is really a great help you did by posting this details. it saved me hell lot of time, one of my document to Client had got spoiled because of this issue, now i got back all the details.

thanks a lot for this posting and it really made a big difference.

thanks again,
Kanchana

By: Prajish

Prajish — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:29:03 +0000

That was a real solution. Me also feel that this option is for better performance. But this is very annoying.. May be a bug…

Any way I have reported this is Microsoft forum… and waiting for the responses

By: Jacob Christ

Jacob Christ — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:40:46 +0000

Argh!!!!! I have a similar problem, but my images will not display in outline mode only, fine in all other modes… !@#$%*

Jacob

By: EBean

EBean — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:04:49 +0000

Thank You SO much!

By: simar01226

simar01226 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:39:16 +0000

Hello Sir,

Please help me out as well with two problems I am facing with MS Word 2007 documents.
1. When I write some text (English font), it appears perfect but when I print it, there are only special characters like !”#$%’() in the printout. I do not get any text.
2. And, second is the problem similar to what you have discussed above. I am not able to see any figure I add, but in full screen view, it is there. However, when I followed the steps, you mentioned, I found that “Show pictureplaceholder” was already unchecked in my case!

I would be very grateful if you could tell my some way out!

Thanks in advance!

By: Handy

Handy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:35:53 +0000

Thanks a lot……..

By: DavidW

DavidW — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:28:50 +0000

Yup … it turned out to be genuinely that simple! Thanks.

By: Lucy H-T

Lucy H-T — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:11:05 +0000

Thank you for this. I was working on a 140 page doc when it crashed and thought I had lost them for good!

By: Laks

Laks — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:27:44 +0000

The solution worked and was to the point. Thanks very much.

By: whycare

whycare — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:11:29 +0000

Thank you for the information!!! I’ve no idea why this option was turned on suddenly. I’ve tried restarting MS Word again and again, restarted my computer, and bugged office MIS one whole day.

I’m short of re-installing the whole MS Office system. Your solution saved me!!

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:35:10 +0000

Microsoft word has been giving me fits for years with links to images.

I have a very large document with my family history in it and I insert links to hundreds of pictures by using the insert picture, from file, insert link to picture feature.

If I ever copy the directory to another computer or to a different drive, I find all the links broken. I toggle field codes to see what is wrong with the field code and the field code looks perfectly valid. The directory path and image file name is fine but I still see the rectangle with the broken link icon. The only way I have found to recover is to delete the link and re-insert the image which takes hours every time this happens.

Also, when I insert new images, it often inserts a path that is incredibly long such as ..\documents and settings\..\user\..\..\..\tmr\…

Is there another document editor out there that doesn’t have all these problems?

By: T

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:40:34 +0000

Wow, am I grateful! You just about saved my life – was about to go crazy needing to solve the problem fasst and not finding the solution anywhere, and then it was so simple! I have a deadline to keep, and after my computer got up and running after a crash, the time I have for the job is very limited – and then I couldn’t see the equations I needed to write in the text, only those blank boxes…. It was killing me! Thank you so much for being so generous that you save the rest of us poor souls lost in Microsoft-world! You’re great! :-)

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:53:09 +0000

strike that, reverse it … Gentleman and a scholar !!!

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:51:10 +0000

You sir are a scholar and a gentleman !!! Thank you soooo much for this solution. I have been living with this issue for a while due to the fact that it just wasnt important enough for me to research. It finally annoyed me enough to do a second google search and BINGO !!! … again Thanks !!

By: kings

kings — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:16:42 +0000

this is very helpful.thats a lot for the solution.it has saved many stress

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:28:14 +0000

Thank u very much..
I was very disturbed by this problem. Thank u for the solution….

By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:47:48 +0000

Thank you, it works

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:22:37 +0000

ymmd, thx! <3

By: David Belove

David Belove — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:55:36 +0000

I was really hoping this would solve my image display problem, but when I looked at the show picture placeholders it was already unchecked. Any other thoughts about why I get a little red x instead of my .bmp logo image in the header of my document?

By: Remco

Remco — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:26:31 +0000

Thanks mate, was looking for the solution for over 2 weeks now. Thanks!

By: Len

Len — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:36:38 +0000

excellent work! did just the trick

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:12:30 +0000

AMAZING! THANKS. THIS WAS THE FIX.

By: Waqas Ahmed

Waqas Ahmed — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:12 +0000

Thank you so much bro..

that was of great help :)

By: Wael Ali Hassan

Wael Ali Hassan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:36:15 +0000

Hey man
Thanks a lot for your time and concern, it was really a pain in the ass, especially that I had the same problem on my desktop, with Office 2003, and also I could not solve the problem, and when the people ask me why the images does not show, I claim to them that I did it on purpose to make the computer faster, but I have a big big laptop, but still I say the same thing. Thanks for saving me from embarrassment.
Salam