When you try to open Microsoft Office Word 2003 or Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 files that have the following criteria
- The files have certain Windows Metafile Format (WMF) and Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) metafiles.
-and- - The WMF and EMF metafiles are less than 1 megabyte (MB).
-and- - The WMF and EMF metafiles have many StretchDIBit calls.
the files are extremely slow to open.
To work around this behavior, follow these steps:
- Select the picture object in the file that is rendering slowly.
- Click Edit, and then click Cut.
- Click Edit, and then click Paste Special.
- Click Picture from the As: box.
Note Any Picture option, except JPEG, will work correctly when you use this method. - Click OK.
- Reposition and resize the resulting picture object as necessary in the file.