Imported image looks grainy

I imported a Word file that contains an embedded image. The
image looks really grainy inside the RoboHelp topic after import.
It's recognizable as the same image, and sort of readable, but it
looks bad. Is there a way to make it look better by importing it
differently, or by changing the Word file before import?
I would include it here but the forum doesn't allow
attachments.
Thanks.

I imported Mitch's docx file into RH7 and got the same
result.
I then saved the docx file as a web page filtered as that
gets Word to save the images to a sub-folder to the htm file. The
image was saved as a gif. I then ran a simple test to confirm that
Word saves images as their original format so Mitch's source image
was a gif.
I took a screenshot of the image and saved it as a jpg. That
was then inserted into a docx file which then got saved as a web
page filtered. That confirmed the image was still recognised by
Word as a jpg.
I imported that document into RH and none of the grainy
appearance.
So the problem seems to be that the source image was a gif.

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