Thanks for all that information,John. First, we're using MS Word 2002 and XP.

While reading your response it dawned on us that all of the figures were created in one of two ways. Either we scanned in a map and opened it in Picture It to add information saving it as a jpg, or, we just scanned a picture as a jpg and inserted it into the document. All, that is, except two. Two of them were pictures "borrowed" from web sites and the offending picture is one of them so it is of questionable ancestry.

Following your guidance, we opened the image saved from the web site (which is a jpg) in Picture It and saved it again as a jpg giving it a new name. We then replaced the offending image with the new one and the problem seemed to have gone away but later came back.

However, also following your guidance, we printed out the page and it prints just fine. That is, it appears negative on the screen but prints positive. So, there is no actual problem. It is just MS Word trying to make us think there is a problem!

This is why we use Word Perfect for most of our work and only use Word when we have to share.

Thanks for your help.

Bev and Jerry