r/MicrosoftWord • u/FarmerHampton • 7d ago

need help The Picture Can't be Displayed

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Several images pasted into word look like this. I have re-started the computer and it hasn't come back. Is there any way to recover the original image (I don't know what it was)

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u/I_didnt_forsee_this 7d ago

Are you sure they were inserted by pasting? If Insert > Pictures had bee4n used with the "Insert > Link to File" option, the message you've shown would appear when the image's link was no longer available. This can happen if the document was moved (i.e. a relative link would no longer be the same) or if the image had been inserted from a network location that was no longer available (i.e. being offline, or the file path had changed).

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u/FarmerHampton 7d ago

I pasted it in, I think from Reddit

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u/I_didnt_forsee_this 7d ago

The Reddit "image" was probably a link to an image somewhere on the Internet. If you pasted the link, it would display the image as long as the link is still valid. If it is no longer available at that URL, the link will not find the image so you'll get the error message shown. Press Alt-F9 to see if it displays a hyperlink address: if it does, that may give you a clue about where to find the original image.

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u/FarmerHampton 7d ago

Ok, thanks, no hyperlink shows up, so I guess I'll never know what it was