Copy a Picture from MS Word

10 years ago

My wife saved some pics of grandchildren in an MS Word file. She had planned to send one pic to shutterfly or somewhere to have something printed/made. For some reason, I can't seem to copy any of these pics off of this word doc. When I click in a pic, highlight it and copy it, it won't paste in to a pictures folder. The clipboard says it has stuff. When I attempt to do a paste special right in Word, it indicates that the pic is in HTML format and the other options are bitmap and universal bitmap and choosing them didn't allow a paste into a picture or desktop or anywhere except to duplicate the pic into Word again. Paste is dimmed out for the Pictures folder.

I recall once several months ago having something similar (clipboard not pasting something) happen and I finally rebooted and paste then worked. I did reboot today without any improvement. I imagine we can go back to DIL's Vast array of pics and dig it out from her facebook, but why isn't Word or the clipboard moving this pic?

This is a Dell desktop running win7

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Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)

10 years ago

Maybe instead of pasting it into the "Pictures" folder, you could paste it into "Paint"?

That or save the Word document as a "Web Page"?

giving you something like this...

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User
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
Another option (maybe not the best option) would be to press the PrtSc Button (taking a Screen shot of the Word Document). Then Paste that Picture into MS Paint, Select the picture (Using the Select Tool) you want to save then Crop and Save the Picture!
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User
10 years ago
Have you used Window's Snipping Tool? It comes with Win7. Very useful when unable to use the right click for copying.
PKponder TX Z7B
10 years ago
You can't right click the picture and choose Save image as?
User
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
Chas045,

I finally had some time to play. I put a Picture in a Word Document and then tried to Copy and Paste into my Pictures Folder. Like you, the Word Paste in the Pictures Folder is Greyed out. I then opened MS Paint and Was Able to Paste the Picture there! Once the Pic was in MS Paint, I Cropped it and then Saved it as the File Type I wanted it to be (jpg ) in my case! I Saved it to my Picture Folder without a problem!
Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
"You can't right click the picture and choose Save image as?"

I didn't even notice that... but sure enough, it's there as "Save as picture...".

.

That should work fine for an image or two but say your Daughter sends you a Word document containing 50 images from your Grandson's birthday party (or whatever) and you want to save every image. Saving the document as a web page would save a lot of repetitious steps (and time), right?

.

Also: https://www.google.com/search?q=save+all+images+from+docx

Leading to: How To Extract Images from a Word Document
User
10 years ago
Chuggerguy,

Below is the list I get when Right Click on the photo.
Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
10 years ago
Interesting. Do you happen to know why the difference?

The version of Word? Mine is 2010.

A difference in the document itself? Mine came from here: http://www.umsl.edu/~naumannj/Geography%201002%20articles/North%20America/USA/Grand%20Canyon.docx
User
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
I have Version Microsoft Office 2007 (either Professional or Business). I just can't remember which I have, my wife has the other on her Laptop. I do have MS Office 2010 Professional on a DVD, just never installed it. I have MS Office 2013 on my Acer Iconia W4-820-2882 Tablet, it came with the Tablet (Think it's the Home and Student Version)!

BTW, I downloaded and Opened your Document. I still have the same Menu Options. Maybe it's in the setting and you have something enabled that I don't?

In my photo above; I just opened a New Word Document and added a photo from my Picture Folder. There isn't any Text, I was just trying out the Menu Options to check out the problem that Chas045 is having. I do have the same issues as Chas045.

I will try this out on my Acer Iconia Tablet later. Been kinda busy. I'll post my findings here!

Chuggerguy,

I see in your photo that the Document you posted is opened in Compatibility Mode. If you'll note; mine doesn't say anything about Compatibility Mode at the top like yours! The only time I've see that is when someone is using a Different Office Package like Open Office!

Just checked the Word Options for my 2007 version and couldn't find anything that would make a difference. I did play around with a few settings but nothing changed when pasting to the Picture Folder. Wondering if Word 2007 and Windows 10 could be the problem. Not sure what version of Word of which OS Chas045 is running?
Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
"Maybe it's in the setting and you have something enabled that I don't?"

I've made no changes.

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BTW, this is LibreOffice Writer, in Linux but I doubt it matters:

Also, that's not my document, I just Googled Grand Canyon filetype:docx to find one to try.
User
10 years ago
With the choices you have, there its got to be an option in LibreOffice Writer.

I just tried it on my Tablet with MS Office 2013 with the same results (Copy from Word and Paste to Picture Folder). I've never changed anything in the Word Options on any of my computers either, just thought that maybe it could be an Option causing this.

I've never tried to copy a picture from a Word Document to the Pictures Folder before this. I most likely never will again! I was just trying to figure out how to fix the problem for Chas045. "He said that doing this use to work and it's now not working!" I'm not sure that it ever worked using Word/Picture Folder.

I do have MS Office 97 Professional and MS Office 2000 Professional I could install on a computer to see if this works in an older version of MS Office? It might take some time as I'll need to find a computer that doesn't already have another version of MS Office installed. I'm sure I have a computer lying around, just not sure which one doesn't already have MS Office already installed!
Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
10 years ago
" I most likely never will again"

Yeah, same here.

Something you might like to try just for fun though... change the document's extension to "zip" and explore it's structure.
User
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
I do lots of Playing Around! I really don't like it when someone tells me it can't be done. BTW, I'm not saying this is happening now!

I have just been playing a little to see what could be done to help Chas045. The quickest and easiest way I found so far was to Copy the Picture in Word, Paste it in MS Paint, Click Crop and Save to Picture Folder.
chas045
Original Author
10 years ago
Slow on response because wife has been in the hospital. She is using Office 2007. I see that copying to Paint does work. I see that that paint says the size is 1108 X 1380 PX. I don't know what that corresponds to for a useful print. I believe that the wife wanted to have shutterfly or someone make a large print; I would guess that she meant 8 X 11" but I'm not sure.
Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
10 years ago
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Just for the sake of knowing for sure, you might want to compare those pixel dimensions with those obtained by saving the document as a web page. I suspect they're the same but if not, you'd want to go with the one giving the greater dimensions (higher pixel count). That way the "printer" will have more to work with. Just my opinion though; I've never did what you're doing.
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10 years ago
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MINIMUM RECOMMENDED RESOLUTION for Prints.

4 x 6 - 540x360 pixels
5 x 7 - 546x390 pixels
8 x 10 - 960x768 pixels
Wallets - 546x390 pixels

More Pixels are usually better but these are the Recommended Minimum at Wal-Mart Photo.
l pinkmountain
10 years ago
Better option to highlight the photo, copy it, and then open up your "Paint" program. When the program is open, either select from the pull down menu, or right click and "Paste" the photo into the "Paint" program. Then select "Save As" from the File/Save menu and save it as a .jpg. Choose a place to save it where you can find it, and name it something so you will know what it is. Then you will have a photo file in the correct format for sharing in any number of ways. I do this all the time when I find clip art I like and want to use somewhere else.
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10 years ago
Pinkmountain,

I think Chas045 already has a handle on this problem. No, I didn't explain how to Save and Save As. Thought that was a Gimme! The problem was to Copy From Word and Pasting into the Picture Folder, the Paste options wasn't available!

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