If you run an OEM version of Office for Windows Version 4.3c-CD,
you may have a problem inserting pictures into a document. When you
attempt a picture insertion in Word, you might get the message
Word cannot start the graphics filter.
(C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\GRPHFLT\GIFIMP.FLT)
where the filename shown in parentheses is the graphics filter name
that you would use to read the picture file. In Excel, you might not
get an error message, but the picture won't be inserted. In
PowerPoint, you get the message
Sorry, C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\GRPHFLT\EPSIMP.FLT is not a valid filter.
You should reinstall it.
This happens because some of the graphic filters that are installed
during Setup are still in compressed format. These files are as
follows:
To eliminate the problem with compressed pictures described in the
last tip, use the Extract utility to extract the graphic filter files.
You'll find the files in the following directories/CAB files (on the
Office CD):
To extract the files, first find and then copy EXTRACT.EXE to the
root directory of your hard disk. Go to the MS-DOS prompt and type the
following (all on one line) in this format:
extract /Y D:\ /L c:\windows\msapps\grphflt
D: is the drive that contains the Microsoft Office CD. To this,
directly following the /L switch, add the path for the directory and
.CAB file that contains the filter you need to extract. The line that
begins c:\windows should be your Microsoft Windows directory and the
name of the graphic filter you're extracting.
Let's suppose that you're extracting CGMIMP.FLT. You'd type on one
command line
Note: Using the /Y switch will allow Extract to overwrite the
existing compressed file. The space before the filename is
important--make sure you don't omit it.
If you paste a PowerPoint 7.0 slide with a shaded background into a
Word document, the color resolution appears to be lost. When you're
running at 256 colors, PowerPoint handles shaded fill displays
differently than Word does. Your printout should be OK, even if the
picture doesn't look so good on screen.
