Thanks for the ideas, Ken.

I normally operate in "Print layout" mode and I often have more than 1 document open at a time.

The images simply disappear and the white space remains in their place. Clicking on the white space shows the border for the graphic, but not the graphic itself.

This has been so only on my newer PC, since about 6 weeks. My other PC does not exhibit the same problem, as far as graphics are concerned.

Regarding the start bar, I nornally don't mind grouping the similar items, and was just explaining how that aggravates the problem.



>That is an odd one. Not that I have the answer, in fact I'm still on Office 2002, but does it happen in all of the different layouts Word has under the view menu?
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>If you have text before and after the graphic, does the text before and after it merge together, or does it show a blank area between the text? If they merge, I don't think the graphic card or driver is the problem.
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>And, if you want the start bar items to be listed seperatly, right click on the taskbar and select Properties. Under the taskbar tab, uncheck "Group similar taskbar buttons."
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>>Word 2003 SP1
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>>When I create a document, and whether I copy/paste or Insert image from file..., the images simply disappear as I continue to type or scroll the screen.
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>>I can get them to re-appear by minimizing/maximizing, but this is a royal pain when I have 2 or more documents open and Windows decides to list them under a single start-bar entry!
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>>Is there some setting that can control this? Recently went to Office Update site, but no download seemed to have changed this crap.
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>>Thanks for any help.
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>>PS I do have the latest video driver on the system