Obviously, you don't have to deal with 250 high school students screwing
around changing options and defaults all day and still be expected to have
time to teach them as much of the "Office" software as possible in the time
constraints of a semester - on top of all the testing required by the
district, state and federal requirements.

However, for your edifcation - I downloaded Office's update sp1 and now the
Tools-Options choices are working properly....

So much for manufacturer-installed software.

Berenice
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"Beth Melton" wrote:

Wouldn't the whole idea of creating a textbook for students on Word be
to prepare them for anything they may encounter?

Obviously your default settings were modified unexpectedly since
normally you *do* see graphics in Page Layout view. If your students
encounter similar difficulties shouldn't they be educated enough to
know how to modify their personal preferences such as those found
under Tools/Options? Those aren't major tweaks, btw. A major tweak
would be manually editing the Registry. (And there are situations
where this is the only way to modify some settings.

One of the first things my students learn is Word can be modified to
suit your preferences. If something appears odd it's likely the issue
lies in their settings and they shouldn't blame the application.

Also I noted you referred to the 98 version of Word. Word versions for
Windows 95 and above a 97, 2000, 2002, 2003. Word 98 was designed
for the Mac.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor

"Berenice" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your reply,

But I don't want to turn off the Reading Layout....

My whole textbook is about how to use Microsoft Office (Word, etc.)
and I
can't expect my students to screw around with major software
tweaks -
especially if even I can't find out where to change - - in Tools
as you
suggest.

I just want to use the Print Layout view as I have been and STILL be
able to
see my graphics, edit them and do all the things that could be done
in the
2000 and 98 versions.

All I can get now is a blank place-holder where a graphic is and yet
it's
there when using Print Preview.

I need to be able to adapt my textbook to incorporate the "few"
changes in
2003 so that all students using these versions of Office can use the
textbook.

Hope there is a solution out there.

Thanks again
Berenice