"JD" wrote in message
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THEO@TO. wrote:
For years I've been taking .jpgs and pasting them in WordPad
documents and thought it was a great thing to be able to do it.
I've done hundreds of documents like that and never had any
problems. But now all of a sudden they don't show the pictures or
even the text anymore, but instead it's just a bunch of symbols
like y's with dots over them and rectangular blocks, etc... Can
anyone explain what happened and how to make it work the way it
did before?

New antivirus software ? Change security level on IE ( browser) ?
I ran into that with Outlook - showed me a small icon rather than image.
Changed security from high to moderate and then showed picture as it used
to.
( "preview" is considered a security issue)

BTW, I use paint to do what you do
start- prgs - accessories-paint
copy picture from app
paste
save as
done