[CyberTaz]

Since you didn't specifically mention it (and it's in a rather unintuitive
location IMHO), the first thing I'd suggest you check is in Word
Options/Display/Printing Options - make sure there is a check in the box to
"Update linked data before printing". That alone may be what you need.

Have you tried going to Office Button/Prepare/Edit Links to Files, selecting
all links (select the first then Shift-Click the last) & manually updating
before printing?

If not any of this it could be an issue of where the files are actually
stored - locally or on a network drive. If remotely it could be hindering
the printing process. Depending on the picture files themselves it could
also be related to system resources.

HTH |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac


On 12/12/07 11:46 AM, in article
, "Ron Smith"
wrote:

I'm using Word 2007. Some of my documents have a large number of pictures.
To keep the files to manageable size and to only have one place to manage the
pictures, they are all inserted via linking and are not saved with the
document.

When I want to print the document, I have to manually visit each picture and
wait for Word to display it. If I don't, it prints as the outline box with
red x. The same is true is I just want to export it to PDF with the Save to
PDF feature.

I'm quite comfortable with programming for Office and would be happy with a
workaround that I can do in code. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything I
can check in a macro or add-in to let me know when Word has actually
displayed the picture.

I've tried all the settings in Word options but they don't seem to have any
effect on this.

I'd love to hear any suggestions.
Thanks,