RE: Images in Word Doc Not Displayed When Viewed on a Mac

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Ron Hearn wrote:
 
> I create my docs in Word 2010 on a PC.  When someone using a Mac opens
> one of my word files, the text is all there, but the images are blank.
> The work-around for this is to send the Word file as a PDF as the
> images are displayed when the PDF is opened on a Mac. Has anyone else
> encountered this issue and have a solution other than the PDF one? It
> seems to me to be some sort of incompatibility between Word documents
> created on a PC and a Mac.

What's the file format of the images? The Mac may not understand Windows-specific formats like Windows Metafile (.wmf) or Enhanced Metafile (.emf). 

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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