Save as PDF from Word 2007 missing graphics

A similar question has been asked before, but it's still marked "unanswered" and I still don't know what's going on. All I really wanted to do today was update my resume...
Sometime during the last two months of 2014, I lost the ability to see graphics like text boxes and images when saving a Word 2007 document as a PDF. I've tried saving it from the "Save As..." option, I've tried saving it from the Acrobat tab, I've tried printing it to PDF - nothing works. If you can visualize this, on the first PDF, a blank space shows up in place of the text box, and on the other PDF, you'd never even know there had been an image inserted at the beginning of the line.
Does anyone know if this is a Word problem or an Adobe problem? Has an otherwise well-intentioned update (to either program) screwed this up? I'm using Windows 7 and the Firefox browser.

Are they really missing or there are place holders there? Have you gone to the preferences and turned on View Large Images? As an unrelated comment, do you really want images in a resume? Maybe if you are a graphic artist or such, but images are not common in most resumes I have seen and I would not expect such. However, that is really your choice, just wanted to comment.

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