Inseting a web page and preserving graphics in a Word document??

[cruiser]

hi. have a question. I am attempting to finish up my thesis, and
having difficulty with Word. My research included a web-based survey
form with graphics, which I now need to import as an annex to my
thesis. No matter what I try, the graphics fail to copy over. I've
tried copy/paste, I've tried insert/object, insert/html object, and
insert/file. I've tried various html formats, including web archive,
no luck. the Help function did not. Is there a simple way to do this?

 

[John McGhie]

There's actually "no" way to do this the way you are attempting to do it

You will need to construct the form as a table in Word, and then you will
need to go to each graphic and right-click it. Choose copy, come back to
Word and paste it into the correct place.

Your problem is that you are attempting to "Link" pictures. The original
picture is remaining on the web server. You need to copy it and paste it
into the document.

Office applications are designed to prevent linking to stuff on the web, for
security reasons. Various types of graphic file can contain viruses.

The other way you could do this is to use Grab to take a screen-shot of your
browser displaying the web page, then paste the resulting picture into Word.

That will result in a very large file, and the resolution may not be high
enough for printing.

Cheers

hi. have a question. I am attempting to finish up my thesis, and
having difficulty with Word. My research included a web-based survey
form with graphics, which I now need to import as an annex to my
thesis. No matter what I try, the graphics fail to copy over. I've
tried copy/paste, I've tried insert/object, insert/html object, and
insert/file. I've tried various html formats, including web archive,
no luck. the Help function did not. Is there a simple way to do this?

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[Clive Huggan]

On 9/10/07 7:46 PM, in article C331841E.A001%[email protected], "John McGhie"

The other way you could do this is to use Grab to take a screen-shot of your
browser displaying the web page, then paste the resulting picture into Word.

Or key Control-Command-Shift-4 to take a screen shot that goes on to the
clipboard.

CH
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[little_creature]

My approach would be to print the form from the web into PDF (then you
will save them locally on your Mac drive) and instert that into the
Word, If it's just single page PDF, then it should be easy to do.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Yes, much better than a screenshot, LC! The clarity of the image will be
much higher.

Clive
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[cruiser]

Yes, much better than a screenshot, LC! The clarity of the image will be
much higher.

Clive
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Thanks, but neither of these methods worked. I printed to PDF, (14
pages), and the document refused to come over. I ended up having to go
into OS9, and use maclinkplus. There was an option for conversion from
HTML to Word 2000, which worked splendidly on the text, but simply
linked to the graphics. I imported the converted text into my thesis
document using import/file, and a copy/paste from the browser window
to the word 2004 document. One or two of the graphics that failed to
copy I saved to the desktop, and pasted into the document.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Thanks, but neither of these methods worked. I printed to PDF, (14
pages), and the document refused to come over. I ended up having to go
into OS9, and use maclinkplus. There was an option for conversion from
HTML to Word 2000, which worked splendidly on the text, but simply
linked to the graphics. I imported the converted text into my thesis
document using import/file, and a copy/paste from the browser window
to the word 2004 document. One or two of the graphics that failed to
copy I saved to the desktop, and pasted into the document.

Clever!

CH
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[cruiser]

Clever!

CH
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Further to the discusion, attempting to open the converted document on
a pc, the graphics are empty, with an error message: Quicktime Tiff
converter missing. Please load Quicktime tif conveter to view picture.
Annoying.

 

[little_creature]

To tiff format - this is one which have slightly different structure
and header on PC and Mac, in most time Mac will open PC tiff, however
PC sometimes will lack to open Mac format...

If you can see this message: Quicktime Tiff
converter missing while viewing that word document/ppt presentation on
PC that means that originally on Mac rather than doing
Insert>image>from file you either drag and drop your file in your word/
power point document or use APPLE+C and APPLE+V to insert the image.
However, if you correctly insert your graphic on Mac via
Insert>image>from file, everything should be OK.