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Office 365 Word cannot resize or rotate inserted shapes or items
Started yesterday, I could no longer resize or rotate an inserted shape or item. I tried uninstalling and re-installing. I even tried using SetupProd_OffScrub to uninstall Office365 to see if it co...
Hi Doug,
This happens with doc files or docx files with the compatibility mode on.
I spoke to a Microsoft support employe and he told me that this is not supported. So no support for doc files or compatibility mode.
Is this correct ?
You have a lot more experience and knowlegde and maybe you, as MVP, have other channels at Microsoft ?
This happens with doc files or docx files with the compatibility mode on.
I spoke to a Microsoft support employe and he told me that this is not supported. So no support for doc files or compatibility mode.
Is this correct ?
You have a lot more experience and knowlegde and maybe you, as MVP, have other channels at Microsoft ?
The Product Team at Microsoft have been made aware of the issue and it can be expected that it can be corrected in due course.
I cannot understand why so many users are working with documents in Compatibility Mode. The best thing to do would be to convert the documents (or the template from which they were created) to the current version.
I cannot understand why so many users are working with documents in Compatibility Mode. The best thing to do would be to convert the documents (or the template from which they were created) to the current version.
- Thank you very much!
Why am I still using the *.doc file? Because of the much shorter (ten times!) loading and saving time. My textbook, (about 1500 pages, full of illustrations with various arrows, text boxes, etc.) has 360MB. In the *.doc format Word saves it to my SSD HD in 1 minute, while the same document in *.docx format Word saves about 10 minutes. In practice, you cannot effectively edit it with such a long saving time. (For example, when you set auto-save every 30 minutes, 1/3 of this time will be lost for the saving). Similar proportion occurs for the loading time. It seems that for *.doc files Word loads quickly the first pages, then updates the rest in the background, while you are already working on your part.- If I were working on a document with that type of content (illustrations with various arrows, text boxes, etc.), which are what I refer to as "compound images", I would not compose those images in the document. Rather, I would compose them in a separate document (or documents) and then use a screen capture utility such as Snagit from www.techsmith.com to create a screen capture of the compound image, that I would then insert into the actual document with its layout set so that it is in-line with text. That will greatly reduce the size of that document. The separate documents in which the compound images are created, should be retained in case later edits are necessary.
To obtain even better response when editing the text, I would activate the display of picture placeholders so that it is not necessary for Word to render images as you move through the document.
While you have a much better chance of recovering from corruption of a docx file (assuming that it has not been edited while on, or saved directly to a removable drive), for a document of that size, and, assumed importance, a formal system of rotating backs should also be implemented.
