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PUB98: Object Pasted As Picture Loses Irregular Crop Boundary

Article ID: 179170

Article Last Modified on 11/10/1999

Microsoft Publisher 98 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q179170

SYMPTOMS

If you copy a picture that has an irregularly wrapped boundary around it, and use the Paste Special command on the Edit menu to paste it as a picture, the copy will not have an irregularly wrapped boundary.

CAUSE

When you crop a picture (irregularly or otherwise), the cropping is a property of the picture frame, not the picture. If you select an object and click Copy on the Edit menu, and then click Paste on the Edit menu, both the object and its frame are pasted in. If you click Paste Special on the Edit menu and then click Picture, the picture is pasted into a new rectangular picture frame.

RESOLUTION

If you want to paste a picture with an irregularly wrapped boundary around it, click Paste instead of Paste Special.

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