WD97: Picture Loses Picture Placeholder Text When Hyperlinked

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

If you insert a picture into a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document and make the picture a hyperlink, the picture placeholder text is lost when you save the document.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, manually add the picture placeholder text to the HTML source of the document. To do this, follow these steps:

1. On the View menu, click HTML Source.

2. In the HTML Source, look for the reference to the picture that is a hyperlink.

   For example, if you inserted the picture Commbkgd.gif, and linked it to MyDoc.html, look for:

         <A HREF="MyDoc.html"><IMG SRC="COMMBKGD.GIF" BORDER=0 WIDTH=219
         HEIGHT=163></A>
   

3. Add the Picture PlaceHolder text to the reference you found, for example:

         <A HREF="MyDoc.html"><IMG SRC="COMMBKGD.GIF" BORDER=0 WIDTH=219
         HEIGHT=163 ALT="My Image's Alternate Text"></A>
   

   In this example, you could substitute "My Image's Alternate Text" for whatever text you want.

4. On the View menu, click Exit HTML Source.

5. Save the changes you just made to the HTML Source.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Word 97 for Windows. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Picture placeholder text provides an alternate text-only hyperlink for Internet browsers incapable of displaying pictures. The picture placeholder text appears instead of the picture.

To add picture placeholder text, follow these steps:

1. Click to select the picture you want to add picture placeholder text to.

2. On the Format menu, click Picture.

3. On the Settings tab, enter the alternate text in the Picture Placeholder box, and then click OK.

   ARTICLE-ID: Q164342
   TITLE     : WD97: Picture Hyperlinks Lost When Saved as HTML

   ARTICLE-ID: Q157637
   TITLE     : WD97: Placeholder Replaces Image After Adding Hyperlink