Save images in Word files into separate files

Usually we open that Word file and select each image one by one, copy and paste the image into an image editing application and then save the image as a separate file.

Assume that someone sends you a Word document that contains a lot of photos, and you need to save these images as separate image files on your computer for some reason the sender That Word document lets you not send attached image files.

A common method that we often use is to open the Word file and select each image one by one, copy and paste the image into an image editing application and then save the image as a separate file. This means that if your Word file contains how many images, you have to repeat these actions many times. If there are only a handful of images in this Word file, doing these repetitions is nothing to worry about, but what if there are too many images in it? Probably no one wants to do that.

This article will introduce you to another method to filter photos from Word through some simple manipulations and of course very quickly. If you are using Microsoft Word 2000, 2002 / XP or Word 2003 versions, you only need to save the word file containing the image as a web page, but if you use Word 2007 version, you only need to unzip this Word file.

Save as Web page

This method applies to Word 2000, Word 2002 / XP, and Word 2003 versions.

First, open this file in the Word application.
Go to the File menu and select Save As .
Select the address to save the file.
Select Web Page (* html, * htm) in the drop-down menu of Save as type (Figure 1).
Then click Save .

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Figure 1: Save the word file as Web Page.

When saving a word document as a web page, Word creates a .htm file and a folder containing the images embedded in the .htm file (Figure 2).

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Figure 2: Two files created after saving the word document as Web Page.

Word by default saves the supported files to a sub-folder in the same location as the .htm file. You can assign Word to save the files in this subdirectory to the same location as the .htm file instead of saving it to the folder by changing the settings in the Web Options window.

This .htm file will contain the text of the document, formatting information, attributes, reference images, etc. When you open this .htm file in an HTML editor, you will see the code that Word created. As mentioned above, the folder contains embedded images in Word documents and a filelist.xml file is shown in Figure 3.

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Figure 3: Folder containing embedded images and .xml files.

If the embedded images have been resized in Word, this folder will contain both the original image and a resized copy of these images. Word will retain the original format of these image files (such as .jpg, .png, .) but will not retain the original name of the file. Word renames the file in ascending order starting from the first image in the document. Each original image will be followed by a resized copy if available.

Depending on the settings in Web Options, Word can automatically create an resized image when you save the file as a Web page. Word can also convert image formats to .gif. For example, if you do not specify Word to use the .png image format in Web Options and you insert a .png file into the document, the supported files will contain both the original image file and a resized copy. and format. Now you can copy these image files to another location.

Note: If you just want to get the image files in the Word document (ie the files may have been changed) then select Web Page, Filtered (* .htm, * .html) in the drop down list instead for choosing Web Page (* .htm, * .html) .

Unzip .docx file

In Word 2007, Microsoft introduced a new XML-based file format, .docx. This format is a ZIP Container, containing many XML files and all embedded images. To access the embedded images in the .docx file, do the following: