Linking images in Microsoft Word 2003

[m@rlon]

I have a Microsoft Word 2003 document which requires me to insert images
along with the text.

Because of the images, the Word doc grew to 12MB. I managed to bring it
down to 1/4 that size if I use "Link to File" instead of embedding (default
in Word). However, when I send the file to others, they don't see the images.

Is there a way to correct or properly do this?

Thanks,

 

[LVTravel]

You need to embed the objects or also include the source files with the
linked objects (put them in the same directory/folder as the word document
you are creating so they will stay linked.) If the images are too large,
you may try to resize them in both dimension and pixels to shrink the
embedded images (unless printing them at the other end and in that case you
need the images in print size and # of pixels.

The reason they couldn't see the images is that the linked file did not
include the image, only a reference to the location of the image.