removing picture/object problem

[David]

Hi All,

I have a document created in Word 2002 from one of our
users. I need to replace some parts of it and when I try
to remove a figure (picture) and the text box (they are
not anchored together .. I'm guessing the user doesn't
know how to do that) the 'repaginating' starts and
thousands of empty pages are created. I'm up to 45,000
and then Word kind of crashes.
I've checked setting for the paragraph, picture layout
and so for with no luck.

Any ideas?

Thanks
david