pictures inserted into publications in Publisher not visible

Unable to insert any form of picture into publications. Frame shows and
pictures outlined if held and moved. Have tried "Repair Office." No success.
Word/Powerpoint?Excel will let me insert pictures but not Publisher.
Worked okay prior to a couple of nights ago? Have checked transparency etc.
All seem okay.

Robin Hood Robin was very recently
heard to utter:
Unable to insert any form of picture into publications. Frame shows
and pictures outlined if held and moved. Have tried "Repair Office."
No success. Word/Powerpoint?Excel will let me insert pictures but not
Publisher.

Check View Pictures. If that fails...

This is almost certainly a problem with your video driver.

By going to Display Properties Settings Advanced Troubleshoot, and
dragging the Hardware Acceleration slider down three notches, you will be
able to disable Publisher from making the calls on the video driver that
cause this problem.

If this does fix your problem, it means that the problem does indeed lie
with the video driver. You can leave your computer running at this lower
hardware acceleration, but it may cause problems with other programs. It is
a better solution to try and find a driver update for your graphics card.
Normally, the latest drivers from the video card manufacturer will do the
trick, but ATI (and recently Intel and Dell) tend to be slower in perfecting
their
drivers, so some newer ATI and Intel cards to not yet have drivers available
that do not exhibit this behaviour. The solution here is to nag
ATI/Intel/Dell for better drivers.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Soirry to Hijack this topic but as a newbie I just could not get a new topic
started and this is similar to my problem. We have just purchased a new PC
with XP and operating Office 2000 and Publisher 2002. The clipboard seems to
be stopping us from copying more than one item without rebooting. I saw
another post about clearing the cache - how is this done?

"Ed Bennett" wrote:

Robin Hood Robin was very recently
heard to utter:
Unable to insert any form of picture into publications. Frame shows
and pictures outlined if held and moved. Have tried "Repair Office."
No success. Word/Powerpoint?Excel will let me insert pictures but not
Publisher.

Check View Pictures. If that fails...

This is almost certainly a problem with your video driver.

By going to Display Properties Settings Advanced Troubleshoot, and
dragging the Hardware Acceleration slider down three notches, you will be
able to disable Publisher from making the calls on the video driver that
cause this problem.

If this does fix your problem, it means that the problem does indeed lie
with the video driver. You can leave your computer running at this lower
hardware acceleration, but it may cause problems with other programs. It is
a better solution to try and find a driver update for your graphics card.
Normally, the latest drivers from the video card manufacturer will do the
trick, but ATI (and recently Intel and Dell) tend to be slower in perfecting
their
drivers, so some newer ATI and Intel cards to not yet have drivers available
that do not exhibit this behaviour. The solution here is to nag
ATI/Intel/Dell for better drivers.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Thank you Ed. I had just installed a new video card so I think you are correct.

"Ed Bennett" wrote:

Robin Hood Robin was very recently
heard to utter:
Unable to insert any form of picture into publications. Frame shows
and pictures outlined if held and moved. Have tried "Repair Office."
No success. Word/Powerpoint?Excel will let me insert pictures but not
Publisher.

Check View Pictures. If that fails...

This is almost certainly a problem with your video driver.

By going to Display Properties Settings Advanced Troubleshoot, and
dragging the Hardware Acceleration slider down three notches, you will be
able to disable Publisher from making the calls on the video driver that
cause this problem.

If this does fix your problem, it means that the problem does indeed lie
with the video driver. You can leave your computer running at this lower
hardware acceleration, but it may cause problems with other programs. It is
a better solution to try and find a driver update for your graphics card.
Normally, the latest drivers from the video card manufacturer will do the
trick, but ATI (and recently Intel and Dell) tend to be slower in perfecting
their
drivers, so some newer ATI and Intel cards to not yet have drivers available
that do not exhibit this behaviour. The solution here is to nag
ATI/Intel/Dell for better drivers.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher