Re: Do I understand how Word deals with graphics?

I agree that the drawings are impressive. One note on the bell: it will
never ring because the clapper is outside the bell.

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"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
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Hi Keith,

That's impressive Word graphics work on your web site
http://drawingwithword.com

Some of the 'limits' or 'possibilities' of what you can do with Word or
dedicated graphic programs to 'create' things can come from
the users artistic capabilities, including how they perceive shapes, or
the patience to do the rendering. For example, your
step-by-step wineglass tutorial for Word in 'Let's Draw' shows a
relatively easy and fun thing to do in Word (for some) while for
others, finding a clipart wineglass to use as Insert=>Picture=>From file
or 'paste' into a Word document takes out some of the fear
of having people think it was 'done wrong' by a non expert <g>.

On your suggested changes list, it has been forwarded to some Microsoft
folks, but you may also want to post those suggestions on
the WebLogs for some of the Word and Office team handling the next
version(s). There are links to a number of these on the upper
right of the 'Office 12 zone' page at the Office Zealot site
http://www.officezealot.com/office12/

and Microsoft is showing some of the graphics changes through
http://microsoft.com/office/preview


For the current versions of Word -

Item 1 has been discussed in another recent thread in this group.
Basically if you picture a 'floating' graphic being a picture you
hang on the wall, (the wall being your page) when you remove the picture
from the wall the focus jumps to 'the nail' you were
hanging it on.

Item 2 - are you referring to still being able to use wrap/edit points on
individual elements of a grouped graphic once the group
has been created?

Item 3 you can affect with the settings in Tools=>Options=>General=>Web
Options=>Pictures, depending on how the picture was created
and its original properties so that when you use File=>Save as web
page=>Filtered you can get 'browserfied' graphic files that Word
generates, but it was nice when Word 97 did have an option to save the
graphics out separately with a right click <g>.

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<<"Keith Howell" <KeithHowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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news:2244DD4E-56C7-483D-B672-6EDF5260A580@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>
| I have been creating a website trying to encourage people to draw
| using Word itself and have used the Save for Web option in Photoshop
| to massively decrease the size of any pictures I have used in my web
| pages. If you have any clout within Microsoft then I would ask you to
| try for the following:
|
| 1) to stop the cursor from flying to the nearest paragraph whenver
| you delte a drawing object.
|
| 2) to provide a facility to link edit points from 2 different drawing
| objects so that complex items can be built up from simpler ones
|
| 3) a save for web function for pictures similar to Photoshop
|
| I have an example of a high graphic & picture content on my website
| (www.drawingwithword.com) on how to build an air hockey table and it
| has become a sizeable file. When I get around to it I want to try and
| reduce the picture sizes by converting them with Photoshop and see
| exaactly what reduction can be achieved. >>
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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