Working on a mini-cookbook project, and pictures are slow to load.

[sheana]

I'm working on a mini-cookbook. Each recipe page has a table from Table -
table autoformat. One section of the table has a square to insert a graphic.
I googled the graphics for things like lemon meringue pie. For some reason,
when I open the document, which has 10 recipes and 10 graphics, the graphic
"holders" remain empty for some time as the graphics load. Also, if I hover
over a graphic, it has the web address and says "Ctrl + Click" to go to the
address where I originally got the graphic. Is there any way to get rid of
this property?

Also, I started to save the pictures to my desktop as bitmaps, but I'm
getting all these files named "Scrap". I've never seen anything like this
before. Can you please help?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You've pasted the pictures directly from the Web, so they aren't stored
locally at all; you're pulling them from the Web server where they live. If
you were not connected to the Internet, you wouldn't be able to see them at
all. Once a picture is displayed, use Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink it from the
Web server and embed it in your document.

 

[sheana]

Do I save the picture to my desktop first?

You've pasted the pictures directly from the Web, so they aren't stored
locally at all; you're pulling them from the Web server where they live. If
you were not connected to the Internet, you wouldn't be able to see them at
all. Once a picture is displayed, use Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink it from the
Web server and embed it in your document.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You don't need to save them anywhere to have them embedded in the document,
but if anything happens to the document, then you'll need to hunt them down
again. So what I usually recommend from the start is that instead of
copy/pasting a Web image into Word directly, you right-click, save the
picture to My Pictures (or some other place where you can find it again--I
wouldn't advise the Desktop, though), and then use Insert | Picture from
File to put it in the document. It takes a little longer, but you then have
the picture stored outside the document for safekeeping. That also means
that you still have the original even if you modify the picture in Word
(crop it, change it to grayscale, or whatever).