Images lost when saving over a network or emailing

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Why do my images disappear when:

a. sending via email as an attachment or
b. saving the document over a network

The net result is that only placeholders are displayed - not images.

Surely the images should be embedded in the document when they are inserted?

What is going on here?

[One point worth mentioning - the content has been copied into a word
document from my website's html documents - this has not caused problems
before].

Many thanks for any help.

Regards,

Mike
 
Hi Mike,

HTML files usually do not contain the actual graphic
they link to graphics and they're called when needed for
display (although Word can store graphics when the use VML option
is selected it's not always usable in browsers and email
by others)

Word can also link to graphics to keep the files size down
or if the graphics change periodically to keep the document
current more easily.

If you open a web document in Word and save as a .DOC file to send as
an attachment Word does not automatically change the links to
the graphics into embedded items. If you're sending it as HTML
many email apps have an option to 'include graphics on send' or
similar so they do the 'gathering' for you. In Word, if the
graphics are in a DOC file and they're formatted as 'inline
with text' layout (select a picture and use Format=>Picture=>Layout
to check) then you can use Edit=>Links to break the link and
embed the graphics prior to sending.

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Why do my images disappear when:

a. sending via email as an attachment or
b. saving the document over a network

The net result is that only placeholders are displayed - not images.

Surely the images should be embedded in the document when they are inserted?

What is going on here?

[One point worth mentioning - the content has been copied into a word
document from my website's html documents - this has not caused problems
before].

Many thanks for any help.

Regards >>
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Mike
 
Hi Bob,

Excellent - many thanks for your rapid response - that has sorted it out!

Kind regards,

Mike
 
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