Strange change to color palette

Hi,
I have had a few blue screens recently on my old Windows XP system with Frame 7.2 and 3 GB RAM.
Now I see that my color palette is scrambled in one large manual. Only the basic colors are there and a long list of entries like RGB 017,013,010 are inthe palette. They don't do anything and I can't delete them via View > Color > Definitions.
The manual is 482 pages, 52 MB, with scores of graphics and photos imported by reference.
As a workaround, I copies the contents into a new file and that fixed the problem, but a few hours
later, the color palette is corrupted again.
Has anyone seen this before and is there a more sure workaround?
Yours,
Michael F

> ... originally saved all the images from a Word 10 file ...
Are these natural world photos, or screenshots?
> ... as png files.
PNG can do indexed color and contone. I'll bet MS provides no control over that at save.
> Word 10 seems to have added a Save as Picture option to the popup menu.
> If I save them as jpeg files and replace the png files, will that eliminate the
> odd colors in the Color Palette?
That's two separate questions:
1. Will they save as 24-bit contone?
2. Will reimporting them as contone clean up the Color Catalog?
answers:
1. maybe
2. probably not automatically (but is necessary to allow clean-up)
JPEG, alas, can also support indexed color (we've had trouble due to that).
What MS is doing is anyone's guess, because:
a. they never give us control (we're too stupid), and
b. they never tell us what they are doing (we don't need to know).
> Will there be any improvement in screen resolution?
Hard to say. It depends on how Mr.Bill saves, and whether your current zoom level affects that. JPEG will introduce artifacts - "ringing" at edges where the curve-match algorithm (DCT) runs out of gas. And since this is MS, you probably don't get to specify the JPEG compression level.
The ideal situation is to go back to the raw original art.
Any chance Word can save as TIFF?

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