Robert,

> it shoudld (or used to) present you with a box asking whether you want to break the link: I'll bet it's still storing the info even though it's showing the picture.

Yes, it's GOT to be storing the informaiton...but I can't find it.

>I must be getting old, these new versions and their newfangled ways [creak]
;-) yep

I'm using MS Word 97 SR-2. I think in older versions, embedding the bmps (or whatever format Word changed it to) made the file huge...so I stopped doing that....oc, that causes problems when you want to move/copy docs, bmps. Now that I see that Word makes them so much smaller, that makes things simplier and I'll put them right in the doc from now on (saving bmps that I reuse).

J