Gary,

Thanks for your quick reply. When I wrote the initial msg, it was late... and it now appears that I did not fully sort out the issue... which may explain your initial confusion.

In this case I'm working in a "presentation" and when previewed inside Xara and when the image is accessed as a "Pop-up photo" with the "Dim page" option checked, the image appears and the "Alt Text" also appears at the bottom. I DID NOT check the preview against the live version. When checking the "on-line" version... it all worked as advertised.

I have to remember that occasionally the preview is not WYSIWYG.

Again, thanks for your reply and words of wisdom.