How to remove and save a photograph from a Word Document

[ExPratt]

Looking for some advice, help . I'm not a computer or Photographic expert , so I'll be needing lay mans terms

I have a load of quality Rail reports i wrote in China with Pictures in Word format. I tried to copy and them and save them but I cannot save them as stand alone pictures I have to C+P onto .a new word documents ,which gives me pictures without the report but is not what I really want

Any answers, even the sarcastic one's appreciated in advance

[Rooo]

Moved to computer section.

[manarak]

There are several ways to embed pictures in a word document, and several ways to extract the pictures.

One way to do it is to select the picture, copy it with ctrl-c and then paste it with ctrl-v into a graphics program, and then save it in the format you need. I think the newest versions of MS paint are usable for that purpose these days.

I know some pictures will not be copied over using ctrl-c, so for these I used to make a screenshot (print screen), which copies the screenshot, and then paste the screenshot into the graphics program, then crop the desired picture and save.

Edited December 27, 2014 by manarak

[MJCM]

^ +1

A good image program for this is IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/ ) Free

Start Irfanview

Start Word, CTRL + C the picture

Switch to Irfanview

Click (in Irfanview) Shift + N (or Image , Create New (empty) image

Set as Image Width 1 Pixel

Set as Image Height 1 Pixel

CTRL + V and the image should be in Irfanview (in the same size as where it left Word ) and then you can save it in any format you want

Good Luck

Edited December 27, 2014 by MJCM

[RichCor]

A little confused as to where you sourced the images to put into the Microsoft Word document in the first place, but...

If you want the images as individual files then

Microsoft Support recommends:

Extract Embedded Images

Word documents containing embedded images can not be easily extracted. Attempts to copy and paste the images result in poor quality images or the document contains too many images to copy them individually.

To extract embedded images from a Word document save the document as a web page using the following steps:

1. On the File menu click Save as Web Page

2. In the Save As drop down select Web Page (*.htm; *.html)

Images will be extracted from the document and placed in the folder named <DocumentName>_files in the same location as the saved web page.

-- OR --

try following one of three suggestions with directions outlined in this blog:

3 ways to extract images from .docx/.doc Word documents

• Renaming the .docx to .zip, opening the zip file and extracting the images (Best way!)
• Copying and pasting the image into a picture processing application (Alright)
• Saving the document as a web page and retrieving the generated images (Nice!)

[ExPratt]

Thanks Gents I'll have a go at it,

I may be some time

[NeverSure]

^ +1

A good image program for this is IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/ ) Free

Start Irfanview

Start Word, CTRL + C the picture

Switch to Irfanview

Click (in Irfanview) Shift + N (or Image , Create New (empty) image

Set as Image Width 1 Pixel

Set as Image Height 1 Pixel

CTRL + V and the image should be in Irfanview (in the same size as where it left Word ) and then you can save it in any format you want

Good Luck

Very good. I think maybe you missed a step. I have to click on the picture to highlight it before copy/paste will work.

OP, rather than keyboard shortcuts such as CTRL+C (copy) you can use the Edit> Copy instead. Either works. You are just highlighting the picture by clicking on it, and then copying it and pasting it into a graphics program.

I agree with the free Irfanview (but I use Photoshop.) Once you've copied the picture to your clipboard, you can just Edit> Paste in Irfanview and it will create the picture file you can then save.

[RichCor]

I would have thought the 'easiest' method would be to save the document as a .docx then manually rename the extension to .zip then open the zip and copy all the images from the images folder. Done.

The downside of using your word document as the source will be severely reduced image size.

[MJCM]

I would have thought the 'easiest' method would be to save the document as a .docx then manually rename the extension to .zip then open the zip and copy all the images from the images folder. Done.

The downside of using your word document as the source will be severely reduced image size.

It absolutely is, but IMHO that is better suited for Computer Savy people, unless you offer to write a Fool Proof Dummy Guide