PN> I recently inserted a scanned  photo of my dog into a word
 PN> document (then called the default 'document  1').
 PN> Ever since then, whenever I open Word, there is the photo of
 PN> my dog.
It sounds like you've saved the dog photo as your Normal.dot, the
settings that Word uses as the standard template for letters.  Look
up templates and normal in the help menu.
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