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Re: Strange Word reaction concerning graphics when updating fields

Subject: Re: Strange Word reaction concerning graphics when updating fields
From: Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
To: tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:33:16 -0800

tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com wrote:

Is anyone familar with the term:

"Error! Objects cannot be created from editing field codes."?

Make a copy of the original document, select the entire document and press <Ctrl>+<Shift>+ <F9> to break all of the dynamic links in the document. If you had links that you wanted to preserve, start over and select the first PP slide and press <Ctrl>+<Shift>+ <F9> , and repeat for each slide. Update the document fields. Do the pictures go away? If not, add your captions and update again. Do your pictures go away?

If you're still having problems with it, google for the error message text (Objects cannot be created from editing field codes). Google showed me a couple of MS troubleshooting procedure documents and some independent discussions of the problem going back to Word 2000.

My personal take on this, as an erstwhile Word dilletante who has tried and tired of pushing Word uphill since well before the 2000 release, is that "Object Linking and Embedding" and its derivatives are best left to the Stunt Writers Guild. Word docs with linked or embedded objects can have the messy habit of blowing their brains out whenever a deadline approaches. I guess embedding is the lesser evil.

Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com
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