Illustrator is a graphics design & layout program. What it generates are page files in its own format and with its own file format extension, ai. Word is a wordprocessing program that generates page files in its own format and with the file format extension of doc. The drawing you think you're saving is actually a page file with the drawing on it. What you're trying to do is open an Illustrator page in Word. If you want specifically the drawing as a graphic image, I think Illustrator can convert it for you, but you have to save it as a universal type of graphic format and not a page. You need it to be a jpg image, a bmp, tif, eps, png, and there are many others that are compatible with Word. Just go back to Insert Picture, click the down arrow at the "Files of Type" prompt, and you will see all of the graphic formats that are compatible with Word. If Illustrator cannot do it or if you don't know how, you can export or copy and paste the image into Photoshop, which is a image editing program that serves this very purpose. In Photoshop, just go to Save As and click the down arrow at the "Format" prompt. Select the format type you want to convert to. Either a bmp or jpg will suffice. Sorry if I jumped the gun in assuming you have Photoshop. Most people who have Illustrator also have Photoshop. If you have Photoshop Elements or any other graphics editor such as Paint Shop Pro, Photo Paint, PhotoImpact, etc., they will serve your purpose also. Incidentally, it is likely you have Microsoft Picture Editor just in case you never did install a graphics editing program. Hope this was helpful.

Well, even though no one sent a link for any pictures, we went ahead and installed anyway.. so in case anyone else is looking... heres what I was talking about

Several methods are noted on the Computer Forum. http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/comphelp/msg11184303457.html?15 Here is a link that might be useful: the answers

Hi Tricia - some people have images pasted in the body of their message, rather than an image link appended to the bottom. Do you know how that's done? The image link only allows you to post one image per thread. Cheers, GW