I've dragged and dropped 3000 .PNG images into MS word, and saved the resulting document as an html webpage, in the same folder as those 3000 .PNG files, but MS word creates a folder in that same directory, with ANOTHER copy of each of those 3000 images.

they are named image0001, image0002, etc..
rather than the names of my original images.

Can I not get MS word to just save the darn html file and have the html code refer to the images already in the directory , rather than recreating all the images into its own folder and taking up extra space ?