Hi,



Has anyone had an issue with MS Word 2007 which having a border type line on the left side of the image?

It's not a full border at all, it's like a half border that is partially on the left side and on the top of the image. The only thing I do is insert an image, click save, and then all of a sudden this crazy black border line shows up around the left side of the image and top of the image. Some images do this, some do not and I'm not sure why.

If needed, I'll do a snap shot of it to help if no one knows what I'm referring to, just let me know.

Thanks

Hi
Did you find a answer to this - I have the same annoying problem.
John

I suggest you upload a screenshot so that others have a better understanding.

Did you do a right click and checked out format picture? Anything there?

Hope this photo will clarify my point.

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Does no-one know the answer to this problem????

Come on, we need your help!

John

Same problem just started on my system as well. Easiest work around I've found is to right click the image, select "change picture..." and select the image file again. This will get rid of the black lines until you save again. I go through that procedure just before printing.

I've tried compressing images using Word's built-in tool with no luck. I've also tried JPG and PNG versions of the same image in addition to reducing the image dimensions (pixels) in Photoshop. Nothing is consistently getting rid of the problem so far.

The problem is being reported on Experts-Exchange as well, but the post I found doesn't have a permanent solution. One suggested work around was to crop .01" from the top and left sides. That seems to work for me.

I'm a member there and will report back here if there's any other solutions posted.

I've never had that problem, but I was going to suggest the same thing. If the pseudo borders are within the picture's bounding box. Magnify to 500% and use Word's cropping tool to shave off the problem edges.

You don't even have to zoom in, just right-click the image and select "size". Then enter .01" in the left and top "crop from" boxes.

Hi,

I've had this same problem, but I've just removed the 'automatically perform basic compression on save' option and it seems to have stopped the black lines appearing after saving and re-opening the files. (I've only tried it twice so I'm not 100% on if it works in all situations!)

To do this, click on any picture in the document, go to the 'Format' tab click on the 'Compress Pictures' button, then click on 'Options' and deselect the 'automatically perform basic compression on save' option, then click 'OK' and then 'Cancel'... You can now try saving and re-opening the files and see if it has worked or not!

You have to do this for each document you have the problem with though!

Good Luck!

Awesome, finally a real solution.

To make it permanent, you have to edit the registry. Here's the instructions I found:

http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00862.htm
That page is for PowerPoint, but the same solution works for Word and Excel by following the same instructions and substituting Word and Excel when PowerPoint is referenced.

It worked without rebooting for me. I'm running Win 7 Pro 64bit. I created 32bit Dword values.

Very interesting. I had to navigate to the option a little differently. Do you know how to turn off automatic compression on save universally rather than just picture by picture?

I could just turn it off once on the document and it would apply to the whole document (even after closing and re-opening the doc). As for setting it to off as a default for all new documents... I had a quick look but unfortunately couldn't find anyway to do it.

It may be worth someone else looking too, as I doubt I've looked everywhere!!

As suggested, turning off picture compression and cropping worked on a document-by-document basis. Below is information on turning off compression as the default.

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Originally Posted by macropod FWIW, unwanted borders on images in Word are often caused by Word's image compression. You need to turn it off (before saving the document) to prevent that. Alternatively, you can crop the affected image slightly to remove the borders.

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Originally Posted by wiggles I could just turn it off once on the document and it would apply to the whole document (even after closing and re-opening the doc). As for setting it to off as a default for all new documents...

One poster suggested editing the registry.

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Originally Posted by Evan78 To make it permanent, you have to edit the registry.

I was not enthusiastic about advising people to edit the registry in order to eliminate this problem. So I turned to . . . Turn off picture compression [in Office 2010]

To keep the maximum picture quality, you can turn off compression for all pictures in a file. However, turning off compression can cause very large file sizes without an upper limit on the size of the file.

1. Click the File tab.
2. Under Help, click Options, and then click Advanced.
3. Next to Image Size and Quality, click the file that you want to turn off picture compression for.
4. Under Image Size and Quality, select the Do not compress images in file check box.

Note This setting applies only to pictures in the current file or the file selected in the list next to Image Size and Quality.

In Office 2010, the drop-down to the right there is an option to set compression to off for all new documents. See attached picture.

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