Not when you copy images from the Web, no, because what you are copying from
the Web is the link, not the picture. Best practice is to right-click on the
Web image and choose "Save Image As." After you've saved it to My Pictures
(or wherever), you can use Insert | Picture | From File to insert it in your
document, and that process does embed it by default.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Anna Summers" wrote in message
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Can you set a default so that Word 2003 will ALWAYS EMBED instead of LINK?
It seems a much to have to click around to prevent it from NOT storing an
image that you indicate you want to store. Thanks, --Ann Fennell

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

1. Click on the linked image and press Ctrl+Shift+F9, which will unlink
it
and embed it in the doc.