Thank you so much everyone for the sterling help.

Of course I've now been told by my 'manager' that I should NOT worry
about the images in the Word document, however I do need to produce a
reasonable looking PDF (with images...). The Word document will be
dissemenated without images, just a note where they would be. For
final publishing, the whole thing will be taken out of my hands - Word
doc and non-linked/ non embedded images will be sent off for 'proper'
page layout etcetera. Sheesh.

I'm sure I'll have further questions once I get to the PDF stage.
Thanks again.

Sandra