Why do some pictures get inserted as SHAPE fields?

Question

What causes a picture to get pasted into a doc as a {SHAPE \* MERGEFORMAT} field? One of my users claims he is adding pictures the "normal" way, with Insert> Picture, but once in a while one or more of the pictures is actually a {SHAPE \* MERGEFORMAT}  field, which bollixes up a macro we run on them, which requires all the pictures to be inline. (SHAPE fields are apparently never seen as inline by macros, even when their wrapping is set to inline.)

I can't find anything in the help or online that explains how this happens -- only rudimentary instructions about pressing ALT+F9 to turn the code view off, which isn't the answer. Any clues appreciated.

Mark

Answer 1

Hm. Well, thanks for these resources... and the nostalgic interlude. :)  But neither link appears to address my situation. I'm certain the pictures aren't being entered with the drawing canvas. Some might indeed be rotated -- and the possibility of rotation causing the issue seemed promising -- but all my users have Word 2010, and several varied attempts just now at rotating pictures in that version fail to produce the SHAPE field.

Any other ideas? There has to be an explanation.

Answer 2

See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276862

See also: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/RotatedInline.htm