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What about converting your GIFs to JPGs or PNGs as a test?
> Chris
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> When I ran into this issue, I chunked the document. Only when I was done
> massaging its components did I reassemble its pieces.
>
> As I recall, the issue was caused by a corrupted graphic or five (the
> original doc having been Frankensteined).
>
> > Chris
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Lynne Wright <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- tritech -dot- com>
> wrote:
>
>> After scrounging clues from the Internet (and zero thanks to MS Word
>> Help, which, as usual is approximately useless), it appears that yeah, the
>> problem is that I'd have to provide the graphics folder with the Word doc,
>> along with instructions on how to repair the links if necessary.
>>
>> Which I think will just cause great chaos throughout the land.
>>
>> So I guess I'll go back and re-insert all my pix.... And swearing
>> copiously every time the doc crashes.
>>
>> *sigh*
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Behalf Of Dan Goldstein
>> Sent: July-30-15 1:54 PM
>> To: TECHWR-L (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)
>> Subject: RE: Help! MS Word 2010 graphics problems.
>>
>> Sorry if this is obvious and you've thought of it, but are you sure that
>> they have the folder in the exact same location on the exact same drive and
>> folder path as you do, both absolute and relative to the Word doc?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lynne Wright
>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 1:45 PM
>> To: David Tinsley; TECHWR-L
>> Subject: RE: Help! MS Word 2010 graphics problems.
>>
>> In this case, yes, pdfs are fine.
>>
>> But I DO have one client that requires editable Word docs. So in that
>> case, even if I provide them with the associated folder of graphics, I
>> don't know how to prevent the links from being broken.
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