Hi A.,

The default file save location for documents in
Word is 'My Documents' folder.  HTML does not
store graphics within the file, they are maintained
separately and linked to the HTML.

If you had all of your documents and all of your
images in the 'My Documents' folder it can get
pretty messy; hard to keep track of things; and
difficult to publish to a web server and get all
of the pieces included.  As it is, Windows can
track the file and it's matching sub folder as
a single entity for deletions (for example) and
you can publish a Word web document to a web site
that supports FrontPage Server Extensions using
File=>Save as Web Page and choosing a WebFolder/
Network place server on the web that you have
access to.

If you don't want the graphics in a sub-folder
you can change the default in
 Tools=>Options=>General=>[Web Options]

If you are using Word 2002 and use File=>Save as
Web page it will include XML in the file, it will
also retain all of the original graphics and  other
content that you would need to change the web page
back to the original .DOC file.  If you have resized
a graphic, Word saves the original and also produces
one for the web that is the resized version.

If you use File=>Save as Web Page, Filtered, then
Word will discard everything but the HTML and the
web contents, (i.e. you'd get the web graphic only
and it would be in a format useable on the web).

Settings for allowing .PNG graphics are also part
of Tools=>options=>general=>[Web Options]

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Can anyone explain why, when I save a word document
containing multiple graphic images that
1) the images are stored in a separate folder from the
HTML document and 2) why each image is stored as both a
PNG and JPEG image?
 I thought that the standard word conversion would have
imbedded the graphics into the HTML source code.

Thnx <<