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Word 2002 has no edit Piture

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by hal.stull

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I have installed Office XP on a Windows XP machine. I have installed it by choosing the Run All from my drive option and then uninstalled and individually selected EVERY option in Office XP individually. When I attempt to edit a picture in a document that I am working on, the "edit Picture" option in the pop-up window is grayed out. I am unable to find where to find where I need go to turn on the option or install an editor to allow editing of pictures.
Is this now a "New Feature" in Office XP that you have to purchase separately? I am using the corparate copy of Office XP Pro with all features including Access to install with.

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by dklippert

Select the picture. Copy it and then go to Edit>Paste Special.
The Edit Picture choice will appear if you choose "Picture (Enhanced Metafile)".
It will not work using:
Microsoft Word Drawing Object
Picture(JPEG)
Picture(GIF)
Picture(PNG)
Picture(BMP)
Formatted text(RTF)
HTML Format
Bitmap
Device Independent Bitmap
or
Picture

choosing it will open a MS Office XP Drawing Canvas you can use for sizing, arranging, storing a graphic.
It won't open MS Office Photo Editor.

If you paste first into MS Photo Editor
and then copy from there into Word and use Edit=>Paste Special and insert using:

Microsoft Photo Editor 3.0 Picture Object

you can double click that object and it will bring up MS Photo Editor for editing.

by hal.stull

To bad Microsoft can't leave things that were working in the previous 3 versions of Word alone. This works but is many steps past what Word 2000 would do.

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