If your Word document contains numerous images alongside text, quickly navigating through the document can become cumbersome due to image clutter. Concealing images in Word ensures all images are hidden, replaced by temporary place markers, facilitating smoother scrolling and document viewing.
Concealing images in a Word file only displays text
Concealing images in Word involves utilizing the Picture placeholders function to enhance document rendering speed. Documents with numerous images may experience slow loading times; however, this feature doesn't delete images but rather hides them to expedite page loading.
Guide to Hiding Images in Word 2019
Step 1: Open Word 2019, navigate to the File menu -> Options -> select the Advanced tab.
Step 2: Within the Advanced tab, choose the Show picture placeholders option under the Show document content section.
Step 3: Then press OK to save the settings and return to the Word document. As a result, all images in your document will be replaced by a white box as described in the image below.
Step 4: If you want to retrieve the images, you can uncheck the options as instructed above or go to View -> select Read Mode.
With the method of hiding images in Word 2019 mentioned above, even computers with high configurations, when using this feature, will improve performance in working with document texts, especially with large documents containing many graphic images inside.
In addition, the method of hiding or displaying the Ruler in Word is also chosen by many people when they want to increase space for reading and viewing text documents. Users can hide the horizontal ruler or vertical ruler if necessary, and of course, they will enable and display it again if needed. Refer to the steps on the Mytour website and follow the instructions. Wish you success!
