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Hi,<br />
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I have Word 2010, and am experiencing a strange thing when saving a Word 2010 document in .doc (Word 97-2003) format.<br />
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If I create a new document, insert a picture and add alt text to that picture, when I save it in .doc format (rather than .docx) it adds &quot;Description:&quot; to the beginning of the alt text.<br />
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Why does it do this?<br />
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Is there something I can do to stop it happening, other than save it in .doc format before doing any editing?<br />

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Hi,

I have Word 2010, and am experiencing a strange thing when saving a Word 2010 document in .doc (Word 97-2003) format.

If I create a new document, insert a picture and add alt text to that picture, when I save it in .doc format (rather than .docx) it adds "Description:" to the beginning of the alt text.

Why does it do this?

Is there something I can do to stop it happening, other than save it in .doc format before doing any editing?


Word 2010 adds &quot;Description:&quot; to alt text on pictures

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.

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Word 2010 adds &quot;Description:&quot; to alt text on pictures

Word 2010 adds "Description:" to alt text on pictures