How are images stored in Word?

[Henry Stock]

We have a few documents that had a large number of images, which makes these
documents very large.
This, of course makes it harder to email or even ftp these documents.

When the documents were inserted they were either JPEG or BMP files.

I am wondering:
a: How they are stored in the document, and
b: if there is any way to extract the originals so that we could manipulate
them, such as turning them into .gif or some other more compact file format.

My end goal is to reduce the total size of the documents, but I do not just
want to insert shrunken images.

Any advice on this is greatly appreciated. URLs to articles, direct advice,
etc.

..... Is there anyway to write a macro to extract the images?

 

[Jezebel]

Rules for handling graphics in Word documents:

1. Prepare the documents outside Word using a graphics editor --

- Fix the contrast and color, crop etc
- Set the finished size of the graphic
- Set the resolution. 96 dpi for screen viewing, maximum 300 dpi for
printout (in a lot of cases you'll get no practical improvement for any
resolution over 100).

2. Save the graphic file as GIF or JPG. (which is better depends on the
graphic type)

3. Import or link the graphic.

4. Make NO changes to the graphic once it's in Word.

5. Keep the original graphics files. Even if you insert rather than link the
graphic, keep the original.

 

[macropod]

Hi Henry,

You can extract the images by saving the document as HTML. That will put the
images into individual files in their own folder. For maximum resolution,
enlarge the images to 100% first.

Cheers