Inserting (and extracting) pictures into word

[dritty]

1-I used ctrl-PrtScreen to copy a graphic on my screen.
2-Then I opened a word doc and hit Ctrl-V to insert the graphic into the
document.

Here is my Q: How can I retrieve the graphic from my word document and turn
it into a JPG or other graphic file?

Why I want to do this: I want to create a collage with the graphics.
To do so, I need to extract the graphics from the word document and
transform them into individual, discrete graphic files that I can manipulate.

Can I do this?
If so, how.
I thank members of the community in advance for any help you can provide.

David Rafky
Miami, Florida

 

[Jay Freedman]

See http://www.gmayor.com/extract_images_from_word.htm.

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[Steve Hayes]

1-I used ctrl-PrtScreen to copy a graphic on my screen.
2-Then I opened a word doc and hit Ctrl-V to insert the graphic into the
document.

Here is my Q: How can I retrieve the graphic from my word document and turn
it into a JPG or other graphic file?

Why I want to do this: I want to create a collage with the graphics.
To do so, I need to extract the graphics from the word document and
transform them into individual, discrete graphic files that I can manipulate.

Can I do this?
If so, how.
I thank members of the community in advance for any help you can provide.

If you want to do that, don't save them in a Word document in the first place.

Open a graphics program (like Irfanview -- good and free) and press Ctrl-V
there.

Then you can crop it and edit it and save it in any of a large number of
graphics formats, including JPEG.

If you internd to do a lot of editing, though, it is best not to save it as a
JPEG which is a "lossy" format, and loses information every time you save it.