One thing you didn't check into... Word Help

Work in normal view (normal view: A view that shows text formatting and a
simplified page layout. Normal view is convenient for most editing and
formatting tasks.) for typing, editing, and formatting text. Normal view
shows text formatting but simplifies the layout of the page so that you can
type and edit quickly.

In normal view, page boundaries, headers and footers, backgrounds, drawing
objects, and pictures that do not have the In line with text wrapping style
do not appear.


Regards |:)
"AJT" wrote:

I have tried:
- Tools, options, view, deselecting picture placeholders.
Also:
- Start, control panel, display, advanced, troubleshoot, decreasehardware
acceleration.
Thanks!