Converting a Mail Merged document images from "Insert" to "Link to File"

[Ivan Nue]

Hello,

I am looking for a way to convert a document with embedded images
(inserted using "Insert" as opposed to "Link to file") to a document
having these images stored and linked to the image files on disk?

I think I may be out of luck and will have to do this manually, but I
just thought I'd ask. It seems to me very feasable that someone may
have already come up with a simple utility to do this.

Thanks in advance,

Ivan Nue

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Ivan,

I am looking for a way to convert a document with embedded images
(inserted using "Insert" as opposed to "Link to file") to a document
having these images stored and linked to the image files on disk?

I think I may be out of luck and will have to do this manually, but I
just thought I'd ask. It seems to me very feasable that someone may
have already come up with a simple utility to do this.

The ONLY possibility I can imagine would be to save a copy of the
document as a "web page" (filtered, if you're using a newer version of
Word). This should extract the graphics as separate, linked files.

Now open the HTML document you created and use File/Save As to save it
back to Word document format. If you're lucky, this will have done the
trick. If you're not (something didn't round-trip satisfactorily) then
you'll at least be able to insert-link the graphics files that are now
available on the disk.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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