Word 2002 and Images as Objects?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Karen wondered: <<I have a document where I was importing images (jpg) 
as objects and ensuring that I kept them as a link to the original 
image. I *thought* this would minimize file size. Boy, was I wrong! ... 
The 35 page document has grown to 100 MB quickly.>>

My understanding is that when you embed anything as an object, whether 
a spreadsheet or a graphic, Word must add a large chunk of support code 
to define the creator application and load that application should you 
inadvertently double-click that object so as to edit it "in place".

The usual approach should instead be to "insert" the graphic (under the 
Insert menu), and select the "link to file" checkbox if you want to 
preserve a link to the graphic:

<<To deal with the link issue, I embedded the graphics in the Word 
document. And the file size went down to 4 MB.>>

As you discovered, that's the more efficient approach.

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