Getting a photo out of a Word document?? ?

“I need to save a photo from a Word document that was sent to me by e-mail. Apparently the photo was inserted into the document.

How do I pull just the photo from the document to save it as a .jpg I can use?

(seems I should be able to figure this out, but so far nothing is working and Word help is no help...)

Thanks!”

“Print the document and then get a sissors and cut the picture out. Put that on your scanner and scan it, you can save it from there.

Liz, you just leave yourself open for things like this. LOL!!”

“ahem.... I need to do it all by computer, thanks! No physical cutting!

I tried to drag and drop the highlighted photo into a folder.... That pretty much slowed everything down to a crawl on the computer... and then it was labeled as "scrap." And I still couldn't get just the photo! Could only save it as a Word document and not a .jpg!

I need it for a column I'm doing NOW... Don't worry, there will be appropriate attribution. And **I** am in the photo.

AAACK!!!”

“right click/copy --- paste it into some photo editing software/ save.

Depending upon whether or not the sender compressed the image, you may or may not be happy with the result.”

“Can't right click it and do that, Violin. That is the problem. I know how to right click and copy. ;-)

I just looked in "Help" (god forbid!). It said something about copying graphics onto the clipboard. I did that and opened a NEW blank frame in Photoshop. Pasted it in.

UGH!!! Doesn't have near the colors. If that's the best, nope, I ain't happy.

oh well.... dang.”

“How about right click and "view image"? Do you have that option? Then "save as" from there. I've done that before, I think.

Maybe?”

“Nope. Guess I'll need to ask to have a copy sent. Which I can do, but won't do me any good for today. Oh well. Will find a different photo to use, although that one would have been ideal.

thanks!”

“There is no good way to get a decent quality image out of a word doc. Quality wise it's a one way street.

You need to ask the creator of the doc to send the image as a separate attachment.”

“Oh yeah.
Scraps can be opened in MS Visio and saved as image files from there. Crappy image files that is.”

“Couldn't you save the word document as an html document and copy the image from a web browser? Word is a PIA to try and get images out of.”

“Liz are you on a Mac or a PC?”

“It works so easy, it must be a Mac, right?”

“Done issue. I wanted a photo of a Passport in Time group, a volunteer thing I've done the past four years. I was hoping to get the most recent shot, which was sent in a report in Word.

I tried copying the image from "scrap" into a blank Photoshop frame and it looked like a graphic, not a photo.

So I went back and used the photo I had of the group from 2004. I had already used another photo from that activity and hoped to use a more recent one. Oh well....

Had never run into the issue before. Always irritating to find something you can't do easily and readily with a computer!”