If you have Word 2K or later, you may not be able to change it at all. And you may not even have the choice of Photo Editor if you have Office XP or 2003. (they stopped shipping Photo Editor as a part of Office with XP)
The fact that there is a dialog box that looks like you ought to be able to make a change is a vestigial leftover from the days when Microsoft actually wanted to give you a choice.
I had four very long phone calls with Office tech support re this. It sucks, they know it sucks, and they don’t give a flying fig. "It is not a bug, it is designed to function that way. No, there is no current workaround."
Dweebs.
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Dave, the Word help seems to indicate that Microsoft Photo Editor is the ‘hard-wired’ choice for editing within Word. If that’s true, Nancy’s approach is the way to go.