Word is Not Displaying Images? 4 Ways to Quickly Fix It

We recommend disabling Picture Placeholders options

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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MS Word is one of the most popular word-processing utilities. It does more than accept typed words and is helpful for documents, including several images. Sadly some readers have complained that Microsoft Word is not displaying images.

Let us walk you through some solutions. You may, however, consider using some otherword-processing alternatives.

Why is Microsoft Word not displaying images?

The primary causes are any of the following:

You may consider updating the graphics driver. In a related guide, we show you how toupdate drivers on Windows 11.

What do I do if Microsoft Word is not displaying images?

Before going into the solutions, try these workarounds:

If the problem persists, continue to the fixes below.

1. Enable Show drawings and text boxes on screen

2. Enable Print drawings created in Word

3. Enable Use draft quality

4. Disable Picture Placeholders options

If the issue continues, you may be facing a hardware problem and may need to change your graphics card. Some users may want to tryenabling hardware acceleration. This is, however, a long shot.

We are, however, optimistic that if you have read this far you should have successfully fixed the image displaying error on Microsoft Word.

Please reach out to us in the comment section and tell us what solutions worked for you.

Word is Not Displaying Images? 4 Ways to Quickly Fix It#

Why is Microsoft Word not displaying images?#

What do I do if Microsoft Word is not displaying images?#

1. Enable Show drawings and text boxes on screen#

2. Enable Print drawings created in Word#

3. Enable Use draft quality#

4. Disable Picture Placeholders options#