Thanks for the advice Cindy.

Adrian


"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message
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Hi DocA,

Whenever I insert an OLE object of file type PNG, GIF, JPG, BMP or PDF,
it
displays as an icon rather than showing the object itself, even though
the
"Display as icon" check box is clear. This doesn't happen when I insert
a
Word or Excel object.

Generally, you shouldn't insert graphics files as OLE objects. They aren't
OLE objects, they're graphics files. They can only work as an OLE object
if
there's an application registered on the system as an OLE Server for the
file types. And embedding them as OLE objects will increase file size and
could, if you're very unlucky, also destabilize the document's internal
structures.

Use the Insert/Picture/From File command to insert graphics into a Word
document.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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