Not too long ago, I wrote about a Live Writer plugin which allows you to insert images directly from Flickr. In that exact same spirit, and functionality, here is a Microsoft Word add-in called Flickr4Word which allows you to do the same.

Flickr4Word draws on the model of Flickr4Writer and brings the Flickr(tm) services to Microsoft Word 2007. When you create a new document in Word, you can now directly access your Flickr(tm) services from Word and insert images into your mail messages.

Note the author’s comment about inserting images directly into your mail messages. This applies if you are using Outlook as your mail client and have Word set as your editor (I’m pretty sure Outlook 2007 always uses Word) which makes this add-in very useful for those with Flickr accounts.

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.

This video I made for those who are (or thinking about) writing a book in OpenOffice Writer. It’s also for those who have done the same thing in Microsoft Word but don’t exactly know how to perform the same function in OO. With this video, now you know.