“Extracting” Embedded Images Out Of MS Word

Often times when I am doing development or support projects, I have users send me screenshots of their errors. Most people drop the screenshot directly into an email, however some users paste their screen captures into a Word document and send that instead. The problem with the image being embedded in an MS Word document is you can only size the image up to the size of the page in Word. If the user has a high resolution, it makes it almost impossible to see everything.

After much piddling around on my part trying to find a way to select the image and save it to an external file, I gave up and instead found another workaround: copy and paste. By selecting the embedded image, copying it and then opening a graphics program (I use Paint.NET) and pasting it there, you can see the full image. Problem solved.

I hope this tip helps save someone time, because it certainly took me a while to figure out.

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jean
Nice but another trick wpould be using a small free program called MWSnap. a snaphot is easy to draw and also it could be saved as jpeg. Take a look at it, I alwasy use it when inserting some figures in reports.
Yours
jean
Nice but another trick wpould be using a small free program called MWSnap. a snaphot is easy to draw and also it could be saved as jpeg. Take a look at it, I always use it when inserting some figures in reports, also it’s really good for screen capture
Yours
Game4453
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Keep in touch.
Regards