I recently had a client who asked for some business cards using Avery Template 8371. Although the images showed up fine on my Windows 2008 for Mac saved as a .docx file, when saved as a .doc file for the clients pc version of word, the images changed to black boxes.
"Humph!" I said scratching my head. I saved them as .jpgs, high enough quality to be printed on their own office printer. What could possibly be the problem.
I did a little research and this is what I found:
Word doesn't like .jpgs saved from a cmyk photo documents (like photoshop)
So I went back into my photoshop image, changed the image mode to rgb, resaved as a .jpg (and unchecked the "embed color profile". I then reinserted the images into the word document and VOILA it looked and saved just fine.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Black Boxes in Place of Images in Microsoft Word
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Hi
Great information and the images showed up fine on my Windows 2008 for Mac saved as a docs file. When saved as a .doc file for the clients pc version of word, the images changed to black boxes.
James Parker.
Web design Company
I have used these instructions and it worked coming from my mac word 2008 doc to my mac xp 2003 word doc and also to a pc running xp word 2003. What version of word/pc is your client using and I'll check it out for you.
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