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Old 06-02-2016, 08:26 AM
namedujour
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Default Word 2013 Format Graphics


The Format Graphics function hasn't worked correctly since Microsoft changed the Format Image display on Word 2013. It broke even further in the recent Microsoft Office 2013 update.

I always format my document graphics to have a light gray border. You used to be able to right-click and select Format Image, then select a border and a border color. If you set up your Theme Colors correctly, the border color always defaulted to the color you indicated as Accent 3 (I believe - I can't remember anymore).

Now you have to type several extra keystrokes to get to the border formatting in the new Format Picture frame (disappointing), and when you get there the default border color is apparently random. It does not seem to be related to Theme Colors anymore, so I can't control the color of the default. The default color is now usually black or white - no reason behind which one will display "this" time. On rare occasions it "remembers" the color I selected last time in the same document - but NOT after I close that document out and reopen it. So I almost ALWAYS have to manually apply a new color. I can't just go with black (sorry). And white isn't a border color on a white background.

Before the recent Microsoft Office 2013 update a few weeks ago (which messed up lots of things - don't get me started) the Format Paintbrush used to apply the correct formatting to images. So, I just had to format the border on one image in a document, and then click the Paintbrush to apply it to subsequent images. But the Paintbrush doesn't work on images anymore. So I have to go through all of the keystrokes all of the time, every time I insert an image.

Does anyone have a workaround yet for any of these issues? Did Microsoft move the default setting for image borders from Theme Colors to something else? And where do I report these things?

Thanks!

PS. I just tried Format Painter again, and it worked. But it usually DOESN'T work, which is worse than it not working at all because it lures you into wasting keystrokes, attempting something that fails most of the time.

Last edited by namedujour; 06-02-2016 at 02:46 PM.
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