The original images are all elsewhere and I never do anything with them in
Word except reduce them to fit (not cropping, but using the corner anchors)
and removing the default borders from the frames. The reason I insert them
in Word now is because I have reference links (not sure of the exact term
for it) in the text to their figure numbers.

Good to know about the red X.

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Jeff Stevens
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"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
It's my understanding that the Red X is often a display problem but
doesn't
necessarily mean the images have been corrupted, but that's just some
small
experience, and on the Mac.

Like Anne says, don't do any photo editing in Word, in which case you
should
have the original image files somewhere, no? Making corrupted images an
exceedingly painful and tedious situation, but not irrecoverable.

Re Doc Map, here's some more links:

How it works:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/documentmap/index.html

A couple caveats that *should* be irrelevant to you, using Word 2002:
http://daiya.mvps.org/docmap.htm

Another good way to work with long documents, especially if you decide to
rearrange text, is Outline View:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingOLView.htm
(though rearranging across IncludeText fields could get ugly)


On 6/21/05 7:15 PM, "Jeff" wrote:

Hi Daiya.

Thanks for all the urls. I'll look them up.

I already do frequent backups, so my concern is not about losing the
entire
file, but opening the file and finding the images corrupted, replaced by
red
Xs or something like that. That would be very hard to recover from.

Thanks.

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