Q&A: A Better Way to Get Pictures Out of Word

Recently, you explained how to get a picture out of Microsoft Word, but there's another way that works quite well. Just save it as a Web page.

--Jerry Mayeroff, Chicago

You're right, Jerry: This method works amazingly well.

The next time someone e-mails you a Word document with pictures in it, you can extract full-quality versions of those images without having to resort to any tricky screen captures or exporting operations. Just create a new folder somewhere on your computer (the desktop works fine). Open the Word document and choose File, Save As from the menu. Choose to save the file as a Web page and select the folder you just created as the save location. After you save it, open the folder and you'll find two versions of all the pictures in the file--smaller document-sized images, and full-sized JPEGs.