[pinkfloydcrazy]

For some strange reason, every time I try to open pictures in Word 2003, they
display instead as random numbers & symbols. It comes up with the message
select the coding that makes your document readable. This only started
happening recently for no apparent reason.

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

If you are using the File-Open command, than that won't work,
and never has. Use the Insert-Picture-FromFile command instead.

pinkfloydcrazy wrote:

For some strange reason, every time I try to open pictures in Word 2003, they
display instead as random numbers & symbols. It comes up with the message
select the coding that makes your document readable. This only started
happening recently for no apparent reason.