Why does MS Word hide my images? And how do I get them to show up again?

I have a document where the images I am placing keep going white/invisible. I can’t figure out a way to see them again. Why is Word doing this, and how do I keep it from doing it in the future?

Are the images ever visible? If not, and you merely have a bounding box (which is selectable), check this setting:

Tools > Options > View Tab > uncheck “Picture Placeholders”

bizarre… i already have that unchecked. I’m sure there is a picture there. If it matters, it’s in a text box.

Did you try switching views? One time someone sent me a doc with a big image at the end of it - i had the page for the image but not the image. If I switched between Normal view and Print view I could see the image.

nope, that didn’t work either.