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I use the outline view a lot in Word 2010. While in this view, it is not possible to see images - it had previously been possible in Word 2007.
When I paste an image in structure view it automatically changes the view to Print Preview.
Is this a limitation introduced in 2010?
If not, how can I get rid of it? I tried to read all the options, but I didn't find a matching checkbox.
I think you really mean "Outline" view, and the MS support article referenced by music2myear in his answer includes this view in the scenario.
I have reproduced your problem in Outline view in Word 2010, and none of the proposed sollutions in the support article works. As already commented, it states that images should show in all views if set in line with text, but this doesn't happen.
I have also tried to set Disable hardware graphics acceleration in the Word options (since the article included suggestions to the hardware acceleration in the display driver). This also did not solve it.
If you click on the place where the image should appear, you will see that the Picture Tools Format tab appears in the ribbon, so the image object is actually there and selectable. If you try to set a picture border, and then go back to Print Layout view, you will see that the border was actually applied!
The conclusion must be that this is a bug in Word. You might consider posting this in a support forum for Word hosted by Microsoft. Maybe it will be fixed in an update.
Microsoft has a document that goes over several causes of this issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918788
Is the image inline with text or placed arbitrarily? Are placeholders enabled for images? Are your video card drivers up to date? What are your printer settings?
MS has fixes and suggestions for each of these cases and others.
Over on a Word forum somebody suggested saving the document as 97-2003 format.
If a document is saved in Word 97-2003 format, or if a "legacy" document is opened in Compatibility Mode, Word behaves as it did in Word 2003.
I tried that, and it works.
Because I just googled this problem myself, found this answer, and then figured it out, I thought I'd share. (I have Word 2011 for Mac) Saving in .docx doesn't allow for saving pictures. Saving to a .doc file allows images to be seen in the outline mode.
update on Word 2010. I hope this will helpful for other people out there who is having issues viewing pictures on Word 2010.
Click File > Options In the Word options window, choose Advanced from the left column In the Advanced options for working with word window, Scroll down to the Show document content section Click to deselect the check mark next to Show picture placeholders Click OK
