Some downloaded clipart won't resize in Word

[LizzieB]

Some clips I've downloaded from Microsoft are thumbnail size when inserted
into a Word document - if enlarged they degrade rapidly. When opening the
same downloaded image in, eg, Paint Shop Pro, it comes out full size! Weird.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong??

 

[Mary Sauer]

If the pictures have a .gif extension, they will degrade when you enlarge them.
Most of the .gif images on the Office site are small, mainly to be used as web
elements.

 

[CyberTaz]

Without knowing anything about what version of Word/Windows or what type of
image file format we're dealing with, this is not more than a guess.

You're probably dealing with either a .bmp, .gif or some other low-res
image format which can suffer dramatically when you stretch them. In order to
increase the display size the 'blocks of color' get bigger. When you open
those files in a graphics app you are probably seeing them at a higher degree
of magnification *not* a bigger size. It is also quite possible that the
graphics program is simply better equipped to deal with images than is a
Word processing program.

FWIW - any images should be appropriately prepared in terms of print size,
resolution & file format *before* being stuck into a doc.

Regards |:>)