If you want to insert an often-used image into your documents without mucking around with menus and dialogue boxes, there's an easy way to do it in Word 6.0 and later:

1. Open a new document in Word and select Insert-Picture. In the resulting dialogue box, choose the image you plan to use frequently. (In Word 97, you must select the image's type from a submenu before you'll see a list of images.) Click OK or Insert to insert the image into the blank document.

2. Click the picture in the document to select it.

3. In Word 6 and Word 95, select Edit-AutoText. In the AutoText dialogue box, you'll see a preview of the graphic. Type an abbreviation, such as logo1, in the Name box, and then click Add.

Caption: Handy misnomer: Word's AutoText lets you create shortcuts to embed images

In Word 97, select InsertûAutotextûNew. Type an abbreviation, such as logo1, in the Create AutoText dialogue box, and click OK.

4. To insert the image in another document at any time, type the abbreviation you selected and then press <F3>. The image will appear at the cursor location.

û George Campbell