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Subject:Re: Graphics In Word From:Linda Castellani <linda -at- GRIC -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:39:29 -0500
At 03:20 PM 6/29/98 -0700, Chris Knight wrote:
>And when you insert, I recommend that "Link to File" be checked and
>"Save with document" be unchecked. This keeps the host document from
>balloning in size, and allows you to have multiple links (from multiple
>docs if you want) to the graphics file. Then if you ever need to change
>the graphic, you only need to change it once, and update the fields (the
>links) in the document file(s).
>
Be careful with this function. My experience of using it was that when any
little thing changed, Word suddenly could not find the graphic. Even when
all docs and graphics were moved togetherto a different directory, it could
no longer find the graphic and the only solution was to re-insert them. I
finally got real tired of re-inserting graphics and decided instead to save
them all as gifs and use Paint Shop Pro to reduce color depth to 4 bits -
16 colors. That doesn't solve the linking issue between multiple docs,
though.
