It's not clear what the procedure you using would be.
Word and Wordpad can both open a .DOC file format
but Windows Wordpad won't have as man features.
You can use File=>Open in Word to open Wordpad documents
and you can use the clipboard or Insert=>Picture in Word
to add pictures.
If you're looking to add captions to the pictures you can
use a textbox with a 'no fill' background to put text on
top of the picture or Insert=>Reference=>Caption to add
a below or above caption with a picture, for example.
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I would like to take text from a word document or enter text to a word
document over pictures or _embed_?__them. >>
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Bob Buckland ?

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