Hi John,
I'm assuming these are large Red X replacements for
the pictures rather than the 'link not found' small
red X icons)?
There are a number of factors that can cause this
and the major ones were addressed in the Word updates,
to Word 97 and later, but they are still working
on additional fixes when this crops up.
You didn't mention the version of Word you created the graphics in.
If it was Word 97 and you did not have the updates installed
and/or you used Allow Fast Saves (among other causes) the
graphics become 'broken' inside of the Word document
(as mentioned on the website article Doug referred you to).
Sometimes if you use File=>Save as Web Page, close word
and reopen the file you may get the graphics back, but
not often.
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thanks but unfortunately none of your ref applies. Both
systems involved have plenty of capacity.
I found an FAQ on microsoft about it and it glibly says
I've got to re-insert all the pics. Not a mention of
what MS is intending to do about the problem of losing
pics when going across versions. About ten hours of work
down the tubes as I think I deleted the pics I created
from my hard drive at work (brilliant hey!?)
Does anyone know if Microsoft plans to come up with a
fix? Given this experience it doesn't appear I can trust
Word to do the job. John >>
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I hope this helps you,
Bob Buckland ?

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