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Geoff Cox - 29 Dec 2003 14:11 GMT

Hello

A friend claims that she puts a picture into a Word 2000 document and
all seems well. Then later the picture can no longer be seen!

There is an line outline of the picture space but no picture and when
she triied to edit the "picture" she gets the message "picture not
saved within the document" ...

I have tried Alt/f9 and it shows an "Include .. path" to the gif
image. What is the corretc way/s to insert and image from the
Internet?

Is it best to right click on an Internet web site image and save as
picture to the hard disk and then within Word to go
Insert/Picture/From file and then save the doc?

Cheers

Geoff

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 29 Dec 2003 15:35 GMT

In answer to your questions, yes, the best way to do this is to save the
picture to your HD and then Insert | Picture | From File. This assures that
you still have the graphic even if something happens to the document (and
for use in other documents). But you should also be able to embed the
picture in the document if you (while still connected to the Internet, so
that the picture is still displayed) select it and press Ctrl+Shift+F9,
which unlinks it and saves it in the document.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)

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Geoff Cox - 29 Dec 2003 22:35 GMT

>that the picture is still displayed) select it and press Ctrl+Shift+F9,
>which unlinks it and saves it in the document.

Suzanne,

thanks for your reply, particularly this last part which I had not
previously understood.

Cheers

Geoff

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