black picture in word 2007

External Since: Apr 26, 2006 Posts: 14

Documents created with images in Word 2003 show & print a black box.
Although not all documents created show this black box.

Anyone know a solution?

External Since: Sep 04, 2008 Posts: 2

I also had the same problem with some "Word XP"-documents. When I opened them
in Word 2007, they showed black boxes instead of images.

I discovered that the problem wasn't with Office 2007 (although Office XP
didn't have black boxes). The documents were OCR-scanned with Omnipage Pro
and exported as .doc-file.
It looks like the OCR-program made some coding-mistakes that Office 2007
can't handle.

Here is how I fixed it, so I could open the files with Office 2007:

- Open the doc-file with Word XP/2003
- Compress ALL images with the built-in compression tool
- Save the file
- Try to open the file with Word 2007

In my case, there was 1 image that was still black, so I had to find another
workaround:
- Open the file with Word 2007, and remember which picture(s) is/are still
black
- Open the file with Word XP/2003
- Copy the picture from Word XP/2003 to a program to edit images
- Save the image as a bitmap/jpeg on a location you easily remember
- Insert the image in Word XP/2003
Note that the inserted image can be bigger/smaller than the original. You
can change the size, but you should write down the measurements of the
original one
first.

To avoid black boxes in the future: use an up-to date OCR-program that is
compatible with Office 2007.

I hope this helped!