Graphic options in the graphics manager

The graphics manager provides a quick overview of the status of the linked graphics objects since you can link your graphics with various options in Word. These settings define the structural and content-related alignment of the individual graphics objects and in the list view you can use icons to obtain an overview of how the graphic Excel objects are configured. The sample screen shows a possible configuration of various graphics objects with different options.

The options in the graphics manager

Graphics options

Hide

Replaces the graphic with a printer-friendly placeholder. Use this function to hide graphics that are not yet intended for publication – and easily show them when required. To do this, disable the Update checkbox.

Locking by size change

Ignore in Word

Enable this checkbox if you want to change the scaling of a graphic in Word without it being reset and locked the next time it is updated.

Ignore in source

Enable this checkbox to prevent the graphic from being reset and locked the next time it is updated because the graphic’s size (scaling) was altered in the source file.

Relative paths

The selected list object is given a relative path, i.e. the path of the connected graphic refers to a storage location in relation to the current directory of the Word document.

	Good to know
	Relative paths can be switched on or off in the firesys settings in the tab "General".

See also

An overview of the graphics manager
The graphics manager interface
Update graphics
The list view in the graphics manager
The graphics settings in Word

Further contents

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