Save images in Ms Word documents into separate files

Using the Insert menu in Microsoft Word, you can add photos to your text to give the document a vivid look. When done this way, photos are attached to Word documents and have nothing to do with the files used to insert them from outside the document, so it's a bit difficult when you want to take that image separately. .

Imagine the scenario: someone sends a document with a lot of images attached and you need those photos in separate files. However, for some reason, the sender cannot send each image file separately.

So now you have to open the document, select each image, copy it, paste it into your favorite photo editing program on your computer and then save it as a file. However this way is too time consuming. You can create a script or macro to copy the photos, but this will cause you to do more. By saving the document file to a Web page format (Word 2000, Word 2002 / XP, or Word 2003) or extracting the .docx file (Word 2007) you can quickly save the attached images to individual image files.

Save as file as Web page

Follow these steps in Word 2000, Word 2002 / XP or Word 2003:

1. Open the Word document.

2. Click File from the Standard toolbar

3. Click Save As

4. Specify the location to save the file in the Save in section.

5. Select Web Page (* .htm; * .html) from the Save as type drop-down menu as shown in Figure A

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Picture A

After saving the document to a Web page file, Word creates an .htm file and a folder containing the images already in the file (see Figure B).

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Figure B

By default, Word saves secondary files to a folder with the same name and location as the .htm file. You can assign Word to save extra files in the same location as the .htm file (usually saved to the same folder) from the Web Options settings window.

The .htm file contains the content, format, properties, images . Open the .htm file with the HTML editor, you can see the Word code. However, it is important that you now have separate image files to use for necessary purposes.

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Figure C

If the image has been resized when included in Word, the folder containing the image will include the original and resized image. Word will maintain each original format of the file (.jpg, .png .) but will not maintain the original file name. Word will rename the files and sort them up starting from the first image in the file. The original image will be placed immediately before the resized file.

Depending on the Web Options settings, Word can automatically create a resized image when saving as to a Web page format. Word can also convert images to .gif format. For example, if you do not choose in Web Options to allow .png as an image format and in a file with a .png file inserted, the folder containing the supported files will include the original image file and the edited image file. edit size and format to .gif.

You can copy these image files to another location if needed.

Extract .docx file

With Word 2007, Microsoft has included the .docx file format based on XML. This new format is essentially a ZIP format, which is a series of XML files and images attached to the file. To access the attached images in the .docx file, follow these steps:

1. If it is not in .docx format, open the file via Word 2007 and save the file as (* .docx).

2. Change the extension of the original .docx file to .zip as shown in Figure D

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Figure D

3. Open the file with a ZIP application. The image files will be listed in the upper part of the file list as shown in Figure E

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Figure E

You can also copy these image files to another folder if needed.