"Not enough memory or disk space to display or print the picture"

[Henry]

Folks:

Word X updated this week on 10.2.6.

I emailed a ~150 page Word document to a jobshop. They made a few paging
changes and emailed the document back.

There's supposed to be a full-page imported picture on page 150.

I just tried to view that picture in the jobshop's file in Page Layout view,
and all I see of it is a small (~1" x 1") empty rectangle at the top left of
the page and I get an error alert:

There is not enough memory or disk space to display or print the picture.

What's this about? I've got multiple gigabytes of disk storage free on my
system. MacOS is a virtual memory OS: physical memory shouldn't matter.
Anyway, I've got 448MB of physical memory and I'm running nothing more than
Word, Safari, Entourage, and a couple of minor programs.

OK, fair enough, I saved a second version after deleting the first 149 pages
of the document, and I restarted my machine.

Now viewing the 150 page document still results in the small rectangle and
the error message. Inconsistently, though -- the error message doesn't
always occur, even if I close and re-open the file. The 1 page document
displays the small rectangle and no error message.

So where is the picture? Maybe it got truncated before it was emailed to
me. (Strange!) If it isn't there why do I (sometimes) get an error message
consistent with a "big" picture?

There is no circumstance I can think of in MacOS X and Word X that would
justify the error message, except, well, a full disk.

So what's up?

Thanks,

Henry

(e-mail address removed) remove 'zzz'