difficulty with a Word document

[Liberia Alex]

I am compiling a leaf atlas by entering scanned images of leaf drawings into
a word document. The document is by now 3 MB big, and I am on page 18,
halfway. Suddenly half of the pictures are replaced by little squares and
the message appears: "There is not enough memory or disk space to display or
print the picture."
My questions are:
1. How do I restore the vanished images, and
2. How do I prevent this from happening again

I have WIndows XP and use MS Word 2003 (Office professional); there are
still several GB of free space on the computer.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Have you tried working with a Master Document and Sub-documents? I
suggest search in Word help file and try to work with a trial document
so that you know how this is done.

The help file says:
You can use a master document to set up and manage a multipart document,
such as a book with several chapters.) contains links (link: Used to
insert a copy of information created in one program into a Microsoft
Word document while maintaining a connection between the two files. When
the information changes in the source file, the changes are reflected in
the destination document.) to a set of related subdocuments. Use a
master document to organize and maintain a long document by dividing it
into smaller, more manageable subdocuments. In a workgroup, store a
master document on a network to share ownership of a document by
dividing it into individual subdocuments.

Hope this gives you a start.