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MS Office Forum / Word / Setup / February 2005Error ! Not a valid embedded object
When attempting to insert WMF clipart, or equation editor, I get the following error. Error ! Not a valid embedded object I am experiencing the same issue as described throughout the thread by claeschrister on 9/23/04 in the Word-drawing and graphics discussion group, e Except, I am dealing with several hundred PCs, running either Windows XP or Windows 2000, on a 2003 domain. Plus, none of my computers have Symantec Antivirus. We do run McAfee. One thing is certain, accounts that are local admins work just fine. Log in as an individual who is not in the local administrators group, and the error occurs. Thanks for your help You are not alone. > When attempting to insert WMF clipart, or equation editor, I get the > following error. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Thanks for your help You are not alone. When I print I can see the pictures, but on the screen I have a red x. If it is a Visio document, a double click will bring open Visio embedded in the word document. If it is not a Visio document, then I get properties. By the way, if I paste the picture from Vision, I get the Error ! Not a valid embedded object. I've been hosed for week. Do you know of a program I can use to read word documents with simple pictures until an answer is found? > When attempting to insert WMF clipart, or equation editor, I get the > following error. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Thanks for your help I had the same problem here is the fix, I use win 200 pro Log on to your admin account. Go to My computer, C:, Winnt, Give Winnt folder Write permissions for your user that is having the problem. I just applied Write to the temp folder in the winnt folder. To avoid problems. I hope this helped To apply permissions Right click on folder, click security tab. Choose user, Choose permission click apply. I am getting the same thing with microsoft equation editor. I am using Word 2002 (or Word XP) with Microsoft Equation Editor 3.1 (French version). I have an automatic numbering of equation with field codes etc. Whenever I try to update the codes my equations give "Erreur ! Des objets ne peuvent pas être créés à partir des codes de champs de mise en forme." which I think is the equivalent of " Error ! Not a valid embedded object" In addition I also get equation objects sometimes converting to bitmap format. As of yet I have no solution except to save lots... Thanks for your help john > When attempting to insert WMF clipart, or equation editor, I get the > following error. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Thanks for your help I think I have found a bit of a response related to this problem. Which can be found at the MathType website http://www.dessci.com/en/support/tsn/TSN64.htm Thankyou to Bob Mathews at MathType for his suggestions. > I am getting the same thing with microsoft equation editor. I am using Word > 2002 (or Word XP) with Microsoft Equation Editor 3.1 (French version). I have [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > > > Thanks for your help Terry - did you ever discover a solution for this? I am having the same "not a valid embedded object" error and I also found that it worked for users in the local machine admin group. The strange thing is that I have imaged multiple workstations with the same ghost image and this is only happening on one PC. Maddening, isn't it?!?? > When attempting to insert WMF clipart, or equation editor, I get the > following error. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Thanks for your help Anyone get a fix for this yet? We're running a school network (4 schools), Windows 2003 Servers, Windows 2000 on 500 PC's and Office 2003 all around. Anyone with Power User or higher status have no issues. However, we keep students at a low level so they can't install software and such. They are getting this "Not a valid embedded object" error and it's driving us nuts. It's apparently a permissions thing and I would have no problem giving them full access to a particular folder or file that would alleviate this issue...if I knew what folder or file it was. Anyone? Thanks Rick Bond > Terry - did you ever discover a solution for this? I am having the same "not > a valid embedded object" error and I also found that it worked for users in [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > > > Thanks for your help Ok guys and gals, I think i cracked it - well for me anyway - so I hope this helps. I realised that after a few recent changes to my OS the editor just didn't work. So during a mad search of my computer, I checked the Environment Variables (Control Panel - System - Advance Tab) and I realised that my variables for my temp folder were wrong. By changing it back to the correct location i.e. c:\windows\temp i manged to get the editor working again!! Hope this helps you all, i know how annoyed I was!! Stuart Thanks for the reply but unfortunately for me, this wasn't my problem (all environment variables were set correctly). I did however stumble onto something that worked for one user (I have yet to test it on the other user). We use roaming profiles in our office so I decided to try deleting his profile from the network (after saving it elsewhere, just in case) then deleted his user profile from the PC (to rule out the PC as the problem), rebooted, then logged back onto the machine as him. A new profile was created and voila, everything worked - no more embedded object errors or those annoying red x'es. I will post my results after I try it on the other user that is experiencing the same problem. > Ok guys and gals, I think i cracked it - well for me anyway - so I hope > this helps. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Stuart >[Equation Editor Problems] I think I've finally cracked this one. It's been affecting an apparently random selection of our machines for months. When I deployed IE using IEAK, I set naively set the Disable Roaming Cache option, thinking that this adjusted ExcludeProfileDirs. What this option actually does is to set the cache directory for a new users to C:\Windows\ Temporary Internet Files. When this directory does not exist, everything stilll works because Windows uses a sensible default instead. If you create a new Administrator or Power User after installing IE, the C:\ Windows\Temporary Internet Files directory is created when they login. At this point, embedded objects break ("Error! Not a valid embedded object"), and so does downloading files with IE ("The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found.") for normal users. I've put a writeup of the problem including all the gory details at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~peterb/windows/notavalidembeddedobject/ Even if this isn't isn't the same issue, the symptoms are so similar that this may give you a pointer in the right direction. Peter |
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