My cropped graphics won't compress

[Edgar D' Souza]

On 6/1/07, Julia Norquist <techiejules at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am using Word 2003 to crop and compress my screen shots as follows:
...
> I'm sorry if Microsoft uses incorrect or confusing terminology. I'm just
> talking their talk.

No problem - I was assigning the generally-understood meanings of
"crop" and "compress" but I see your point.

> I'm also trying to find out why this happens in *this*
> instance. I appreciate the advice to use a different program, but I really
> do need to figure this problem out.

Plenty of tech writers have had much better results with linking in
separately-saved image files into their documents, rather than pasting
screenshots directly into Word docs. If you feel the need to instead
beat Word at its own game, all the best! :-)

Cheers,
Ed.