Office 2000 Correct Flipped Pictures Add-in (823734)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office 2000, Service Release 1 (SR-1)
  • Microsoft Office XP

SUMMARY

When you open a file in Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 or Microsoft Excel 2000, all your pictures appear the way that you want. However, when you open your file in an Office XP program or share your file with an Office XP user, your pictures may appear flipped or reversed.

MORE INFORMATION

A corrective add-in is available to resolve this problem. The add-in checks all documents for flipped pictures when the pictures are opened. This problem occurs because in Microsoft Office 97 or Microsoft Office 2000 without Service Release 1a installed, the pictures were resized or moved incorrectly while editing them. This is typically done by dragging the picture handles past the opposite picture boundary. This process incorrectly enables the flipped properties of the pictures and although the problem is not visible in any versions of Office 97 or Office 2000, they appear flipped when you open your files in Office XP.

The following types of pictures and objects are checked by the add-in:
  • Embedded Pictures (WMF, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, etc)
  • Linked Pictures
  • Embedded OLE Objects (such as OrgCharts, WordArt, Excel Charts, etc)
  • Linked OLE Objects (such as Excel Charts, etc)
  • Graphs (Microsoft Graph)
  • Grouped Items (containing any of the items in this list)
The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Downloadhttp://download.microsoft.com/download/d/f/f/dffe9511-bf6f-4d79-b0a8-b05d0ee7a187/O2000CF.EXE

Release Date: 7/2/2003

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

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To download and install the client update, follow these steps:
  1. Create a folder on your hard disk to store the files for the download (for example, c:\O2000CF).
  2. Click the download link.
  3. Click Save to save the O2000CF.exe file to the selected folder.
  4. In Microsoft Windows Explorer, double-click O2000CF.exe.
  5. Click Yes to accept the License Agreement.
  6. Type the name of the folder that you created in step 1 in the text box, and then click OK.
  7. In Windows Explorer, double-click mso9cf10.msi.
  8. Click Next in the Welcome dialog box.
  9. Click Next to confirm installation.
  10. Click Close to complete installation.
Note You can remove the add-in through the Add or Remove Programs Control Panel. The add-in is listed as Office 2000 Correct Flipped Pictures Addin.
This executable file installs the MSO9CF10.dll file in your \Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Addins folder. This .dll file has a size of 56 Kilobytes (KB) and a date of June 24, 2003.

How to Use the Add-in

When a file is opened in Word 2000, PowerPoint 2000, or Excel 2000 the add-in scans all pictures for flipped properties and resets them. After this is complete, a special document property (FlipCorrection) will be added. This value will be added when you open a file in Word 2000, PowerPoint 2000 or Excel 2000 whether or not flipped pictures were found and corrected. This document property is used to help identify files that have already been checked. However, unless the FlipCorrectionSkipFlagged registry setting (see below) is enabled, the file will be scanned each time the file is opened in Word 2000, PowerPoint 2000 or Excel 2000. This is to make sure that no additional flipped pictures are added to the file and unchecked.

Note This issue may occur if you use Office 2000 pre-SR-1a or if the file is shared with an Office 97 user.

Registry Information

This corrective add-in has the following registry keys that can be set to change its behavior:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Draw\FlipCorrectionShowError

When this setting is zero (0 is default), no error messages will appear when a problem occurs while correcting a file. However, an error log file (oflip_err.txt) will be created and placed in root of drive C by default, unless it is otherwise specified by using the following registry setting:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Draw\FlipCorrectionErrorPath

By default (if this is blank) the error log file will be placed on drive C. This location can be specified as either a local drive and folder location, or a UNC (\\server\share) location.

Note Only the path should be specified. The Oflip_err.txt file is created in this location when an error occurs.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Draw\FlipCorrectionSkipFlagged

When this setting is set to 1 (0 is default), documents that you opened with this corrective add-in loaded are not scanned again. This is particularly useful when you are working with large documents regularly.

However, it is best not to set this setting if either of the following scenarios is true:
  • You are regularly sharing documents with Office 97 users.

    - or -
  • You or anyone who you are sharing your documents with is not running Office 2000 Service Release 1a at a minimum.

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

312838 OFFXP: Pictures in Earlier Office Documents Appear Flipped

822228 OFFXP: The "Pictures in Earlier Office Documents Appear Flipped" White Paper Is Available

823012 Support WebCast: Pictures in Documents Created in Versions Earlier Than Office XP Appear Flipped

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:8/11/2004
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