We created a document using MS Word which has about 25 pages of text followed by 23 figures. Some of the figures are maps created in MS Picture It (png format) and the rest are photos in jpg format. During the creation of this document, the text was in one file and each of the figures was in a separate file. When we were done with the document, we opened the text file and inserted the figure files, one by one, at the end of the text. Twenty two of the 23 figures were fine but one of the photos is driving us crazy.

At what seems to be random times, the colors in this picture become inverted so the picture appears to be a negative. At one point, we deleted the color photo and replaced it with a black and white version and the same thing happened. We opened the file and all of the figures were fine except for this one which was negative.

The only way we can find to fix this figure is to delete it and insert the file again. Deleting the picture itself (leaving the caption intact) and replacing just the image doesn't work. If we replace the file, this works for a while but, when we're not looking, the colors go negative again.

Anybody know what is happening here? John in Kansas, are you there?

Bev and Jerry