Linked Pictures

[mike east]

Greetings,

Am developing a Family History using Word. Have about 200 pictures, and
about 1.5MB of text.

Decided the only sane approach was to insert the pitures as "Link Only",
otherwise the file size would get huge.

I loaded about 50 pictures. Then closed down for the night. Noticed the file
had grown to 3 MB (was 1.5 MB when it was text only). Next day I added
another 30 pictures, and it only grew to 3.5 mb.

I suspect that during the first day, I made a mistake and load one or more
pictures as "embedded" instead of "Link Only". No big deal, I'll just
delete them and reinsert properly. But which figures are the bad boys?

I can't figure out how to tell whether an existing picture in my document
was linked or embedded. They all act and behave and have the same properties.

Is there a way to tell them apart??

Thanks,

Mike East

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the photos are In Line With Text, you can use Alt+F9 to display the field
codes. Only the linked ones will be field codes; the embedded ones will
still show pictures. If the photos are wrapped, you will have to make them
inline before you can try this.