I deal, and have dealt, with all types of students and of all ages and
understand the situations you encounter.

To alleviate my frustration I implemented a few procedures to set the
applications back to the defaults. I also made it a point to get a
good grasp on all of the settings/options in the applications so when
something does get changed I can quickly recognize the problem.

If you would like to know more about how to reset the applications to
the defaults when necessary I'd be happy to help.

Something you may want to keep in mind is we've found numerous
situations in which a third party modifies your personal preferences.
Typically an add-in is responsible for the modifications but
occasionally I've found a few Microsoft templates that modify your
preferences as well. If Office came preinstalled then it could have
been caused by the image the manufacturer used to install Office. If
you continue to encounter graphics disappearing in Print Layout view
then you may need to investigate this further.

btw, since you are a teacher, I believe it's "edification" rather than
"edifcation". ;-)

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

"Berenice" wrote in message
...
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
======================
"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.

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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