How to see a picture in Normal View

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WayneM

I have inserted a picture, selected the Format|Picture
option to change the layout of the picture to Tight or
some other layout. But when I change back to Normal View,
I can no longer see the inserted picture, except in Print
Layout mode. Is there some way to view the picture in
Normal mode once I have changed the layout?

Thanks for any help,

WayneM
 
You cannot see drawing objects in normal view.

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Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

I have inserted a picture, selected the Format|Picture
option to change the layout of the picture to Tight or
some other layout. But when I change back to Normal View,
I can no longer see the inserted picture, except in Print
Layout mode. Is there some way to view the picture in
Normal mode once I have changed the layout?

Thanks for any help,

WayneM
 
When you changed from In Line with Text to any other wrapping style, you put
the picture in the drawing layer. Normal view does not display objects in
the drawing layer. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/InvisibleGraphics.htm

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
When you changed from In Line with Text to any other wrapping style, you put
the picture in the drawing layer. Normal view does not display objects in
the drawing layer. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/InvisibleGraphics.htm
Click to expand...


On a more general front, I have never understood why people would ever
want to use Normal view (except, perhaps, for checking document styles).
I always use Page Layout view for WYSIWYG. What am I missing here?
 
Ian said:
On a more general front, I have never understood why people would ever
want to use Normal view (except, perhaps, for checking document styles).
I always use Page Layout view for WYSIWYG. What am I missing here?
Click to expand...

Normal View is faster for long documents, and since I do mostly text, not
being able to see pix doesn't matter...
Footnotes (which I use heavily) are more convenient in Normal View (you can
always see both note and text at the same time, and if you use Endnotes in
Page Layout view, it jumps you to the end of the doc!)
I find letters in Page Layout look a little scrunched together and *much*
prefer the appearance of Normal View....
I hate to waste screen real estate with white space showing margins...
WYSIWYG doesn't matter until to me until just before printing, and then
Print Preview is more accurate anyhow...

But I'd say it's an individual choice dependent on particular situations and
preferences. If writing long documents on a not-so-fast computer, however,
Normal View is seriously recommended.

DM
 
I also work in Normal view most of the time. One significant exception is my
Rotary bulletin, which is a four-column landscape layout, and there I need
to be able to see the columns (and there are some graphics as well). For
most work, though, Normal view is much more efficient.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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all may benefit.
 
Dayo

You can Hide White Space in Word XP and Word 2003. Using that with Page
Width View works well for me.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

Ian said:
On a more general front, I have never understood why people would ever
want to use Normal view (except, perhaps, for checking document styles).
I always use Page Layout view for WYSIWYG. What am I missing here?
Click to expand...

Normal View is faster for long documents, and since I do mostly text, not
being able to see pix doesn't matter...
Footnotes (which I use heavily) are more convenient in Normal View (you can
always see both note and text at the same time, and if you use Endnotes in
Page Layout view, it jumps you to the end of the doc!)
I find letters in Page Layout look a little scrunched together and *much*
prefer the appearance of Normal View....
I hate to waste screen real estate with white space showing margins...
WYSIWYG doesn't matter until to me until just before printing, and then
Print Preview is more accurate anyhow...

But I'd say it's an individual choice dependent on particular situations and
preferences. If writing long documents on a not-so-fast computer, however,
Normal View is seriously recommended.

DM
 
Hi Terry,

Yeah, I thought I had seen that option somewhere in my program, but when I
went looking I couldn't find it, so I'm thinking it's not in my MacWord
2001‰PC Word 2000, at least not in Prefs =Tools|Options. I guess I just
heard of it on an NG.

Thanks, though. I'll have to remember to look for the option if I ever get
a new version, at least it would make my occasional forays into Page Layout
view less annoying.

Dayo
 
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