The outlines may just indicate that you've got "Picture placeholders"
enabled. This setting is in Tools | Options | View in Word 2003 and earlier
and at Office Button | Word Options | Advanced: Show document content in
Word 2007.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"chucksphar" wrote in message
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I'm getting intermittent problems when I try to save my Word 7 docx to
Word
97-2003 .doc. Sometimes my equations are preserved as images, but
sometimes I
only get rectangular outlines where the images should be. Any idea why
this
would fail to work as advertised?
thanks
Chuck