Re: Images in MS Word

2009-12-14 Thread David Paul
Hi Severin Pages does it for me too. Regards Dave On 14/12/2009, at 5:28 PM, David Nicholas wrote: Hello Severin I have been helping my wife with her family history which includes many many pictures. We did the text in Word, but once I started to try to embed the pix I came up against

Images in MS Word

2009-12-14 Thread Severin Crisp
Many thanks for the various suggestions regarding pictures in Word. My issue is not with the embedding, I can handle that, but with the colour change. More or less sorted, I think! Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Sever

Re: Images in MS Word

2009-12-14 Thread David Nicholas
Hello Severin I have been helping my wife with her family history which includes many many pictures. We did the text in Word, but once I started to try to embed the pix I came up against Word. Word, embedded pictures!! Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! So I tried Pages. It is fantastic. Try it and

Re: Images in MS Word

2009-12-14 Thread Bill Parker
Severin, This may have some help for you: http://www.freelists.org/post/austechwriter/atw-Re-Managing-images-in-MS-Word,1 Bill On 14/12/2009, at 4:18 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I am having my usual annoyance as I prepare my Christmas family newsletter, liberally illustrated with photos

Re: Images in MS Word

2009-12-14 Thread Severin Crisp
Thanks, James Severin On 14/12/2009, at 4:33 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Severin, Don't bother with embedded profiles if you are importing into Word...it does its own thing. One possible strategy is to Export for Web in Photoshop. This tends to push things to lowest common denominator (e.g.

Re: Images in MS Word

2009-12-14 Thread James Devenish
Hi Severin, Don't bother with embedded profiles if you are importing into Word...it does its own thing. One possible strategy is to Export for Web in Photoshop. This tends to push things to lowest common denominator (e.g., sRGB), and also allows Mac vs Windows preview. When I do this, I don't not

Images in MS Word

2009-12-14 Thread Severin Crisp
I am having my usual annoyance as I prepare my Christmas family newsletter, liberally illustrated with photos inserted into a Word (Office 2008) document. These are JPEG images, ex Photoshop with embedded profiles but many suffer an extreme colour variation on being embedded in the Word