Extracting images from a word document

Common problem with creating web pages from word documents

[timchuma]

I am often given a word document by other staff members who want me to turn it into a web page.

This would be fine if they also gave me the original images they used, but often this is not the case.

I had been pressing the "Print Scrn" key and then pasting the file into an image editing program to be cropped/edited, but for some reason the image drops down to 256 colours when I do this.

Only a couple of days ago I tried the "Save as HTML" which is generally not that good for creating a web page if you want it to keep the formatting.

What I have found is that it is great for extracting images. It automatically creates a sub-directory and saves images as png/gif/jpeg that you can edit normally.

Once I buy my own copy of Dreamweaver MX, I will be using this method of constructing pages more often.

Thanks.

[limbo]

Very handy - works for all MSoffice apps too: Word, PowerPoint, excel...

[tbear]

Sad........ but true. ;)

[benihana]

good find timchuma.

its one of my personal pet peeves, when you ask someone to send you an image and they send a word doc with just a 3000px image squashed down to 200px. All that messing around with prnt scrn and copy and paste and crop and yada yada....

[Debbie_King]

If you want to extract the images, it also works in Word, PowerPoint etc if you select the image, choose Copy, then open up your image-editing software and choose Paste Special, or Paste As New Image.

The image loads and can be edited, saved etc just as if you'd had the original image all along.

[lZakl]

I actually turned red in embarrasment, when I tried what Debbie_King said. Just opened Word, and hit 'copy' ... Opened Photoshop hit 'paste' ... voila. And I've been using these programs for how long..?

Thanks Debbie!

-- Zak

[benihana]

does it paste them as real (pixel) size, or at the size theyve been squashed down to?

ta

[MesaBoogie]

I've always found that the quality of images "copied 'n' pasted" from Word docs isn't very good, so I assume that you get them at the size they've been squashed down to.