Can anyone tell me what steps to take to get something copied from a (Vista) Office 2007 Word document? I have an image on my letterhead I’d like to copy into a post.
Depends on the format the document is in. if rtf, you might be able to do a copy and paste. If text, I think you’re out of luck.
For a generic Word document, first left-click on the image to select it. Then right-click to bring up the menu for images. One of these should be Save As. Select that and you’ll be able to save the image as a file on your computer.
Another option is Copy. Select that, and then go to the application where you want to place the image. Select Edit-Paste and the image should be placed there.
You can usually use CTRL-C for Copy and CTRL-V for Paste.
If all of the above options fail, you can always hit “ALT-Print Screen”, and then open your favorite graphics editing program (MS Paint, Corel Draw, etc.) and paste. This will give you the image of the entire screen that was up previously, so you’ll then ba able to crop it down to just the image you want. Cumbersome way to do it, for sure, but if the other options don’t work, this will.
One other option is to copy then post in Photobucket - probably the long way around but it will work. My [2c]
Way more complicated than really necessary. Open the document in question, then open another window on your internet explorer and get to the point where you’re ready to post the item.
If you’re copying only a portion of the document, take the mouse and click and drag to highlight the part you want to post. On the menu bar, click “Edit” then “Copy,” go to the post screen, put the mouse pointer on the place you want to post it, right click the mouse, and on the menu list that comes up, click “Paste.”
If you’re copying the whole document, on the menu bar, click “Edit,” “Select All,” then “Edit” and “Copy.” Go to the post screen, put the mouse pointer on the place you want to post it, right click the mouse, and on the menu list that comes up, click “Paste.”
It probably took you longer to read this than it takes me to do it.
I have done something like this. I scanned the document and using a graphics program, cut the part I wanted and pasted the item into another photo page. I then had the photo in my computer, ready to be posted anywhere else. I do this a lot, scanning model train items from magazines so it was no effort.
Rich
The freeware program, Irfanview, is extremely flexible and much quicker to use for graphics manipulation than just about anything else available for any windows platform at any price.
1st => Load Irfanview.
2nd => Load the Word DOC file, and mouse right-click, and copy.
3rd => Paste into Irfanview, and manipulate the image to your heart’s content.
Many times, I’ll take a graphic from a Yahoo/Google search, paste it into Irfanview, crop it, save it as a JPG, then go to resize image & changing it to 300 dpi and double size, and then save.
The image is then quite crisp for inclusion into any program by reducing/dragging the image corners, or sides to fit into your project, or for pasting into a forum thread post.
One aggressive Vista-engineered caveat - if you go into the global settings of Irfanview to make it your default graphics viewer, my laptop’s Vista has over-ridden the global extension default changes upon a re-boot to default to the vastly inferior Vista graphics viewer. You must then dig into Vista’s menu system and individually change your graphics default one extension at a time. Under WinXP, this global default change works the way it is supposed to work unlike Micro$oft Vista.
Don’t forget to download the Irfanview Plug-ins. Irfanview does not replace Desktop Publishers, or OCR applications (which are best for text scans), but Irfanview is suitable for most image pre-manipulation tasks.
Irfanview is also my favorite front-end program for “acquire/batch scanning” with the image(s) then scanned in for instant manipulation, cropping, re-sizing, save as, etc.
Even Simpler, Show the top of the document where the graphic is, Press ALT and Print Screen keys together, ope PAINT and Control V to paste the document top into Paint.
Cut the Logo or whatever off and move it to the top left hand corner of your paint screen, reduce what would have been white to the bottom right hand corner of the logo and save as LOGO.JPG to keep the file small!!!
Hope this helps and you don’t need a scanner!
Cheers from downunder
Trevor www.xdford.digitalzones.com FYI
Thanks, but that’s the way I’ve been doing it–or trying to do it! I used to have a Hewlett-Packard K60 Deskjet 4-in-1 printer, but the scanner, fax, and copier were slot-fed, so I took the source with the image down to a copy place, had the image copied and enlarged, then slot-fed it into the scanner, where I could play with it. I got a nice clear image (shows up much better on my letterhead than it does in my avatar), which I put in the upper left of the page, then typed my letterhead text, in Playbill, onto the upper right-hand corner of the next page. Used it for years on my Gateway computer with Windows 98 and Office 2000, but had no way of backing up a graphic (I thought) at the time, so when the computer crashed and died, I lost the letterhead.
I bought a new Compaq computer with Vista last fall and it came with an HP All-in-One flatbed printer, so I thought I had it made. Vista has a lot of lovely features, but the designers broke the cardinal rule, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and I had a frustrating time rebuilding the letterhead–which I immediately backed up on a flash drive. When I started out Wednesday, I intended to write a post with the image and ask if anyone was old enough to recognize the engine, BUT I CAN’T GET THE COTTON-PICKIN’ IMAGE TO COPY INTO THE POST!!!
I must’ve tried 4-5 times: right-click and copy, click back into the post, hit Ct
The problem here is you’re trying to get the image into the post and you’re getting advice on how to get the image out of the word document. That’s not really what you want to do.
Unless you want the entire letterhead.
Anyway, you can’t post an image the way you post text. You need to have a location one the web where you upload the picture. There are a number of options here. Photobucket, flickr, what have you. Upload the image and then provide a link to that image in your post.
Hope that helps, or if I completely missed what you’re trying to do, sorry.
Oh, it’s a Vista problem. Sorry, maybe Bill Gates can help.
Seriously, maybe you should change the title of the post to something like “Help with Cut-and-Paste in Windows Vista.”
Thanks. That’s how I did it (see my later post, “Name the engine?”). It took Photobucket a while to upload the picture, since I’m on dial-up, but once Vista was taken out of the equation, making the actual transfer from Photobucket to the Forum post was fairly simple!