Sometimes you want to extract an image from a Word document. It is not so easy as copy and paste. Here are the steps
- Covert the word document to docx format. So if the file is in doc format, then you need to open it and save as docx format
- Sometimes according to the 'Folder options' in your settings, the extension may be hidden for a file. You may need to enable to show the file extension in order to see whether the file extension is docx. The steps for that is explained below.
- So once you have got the file extension to docx you are ready to move forward. Change the file extension to zip. The docx format is actually a zip of files
- A zip file manager like WinZip or WinRar would recognize the above file
- Extract the folder and in the extracted folder look for 'word' folder
- Open the 'word' folder and you would find a 'media'
- TADA!!! All images of the word document are there in the 'media' folder
To view the file extensions for Windows 7
- Open a folder
- Press Alt + T + O
- On the window that is opened click on 'View' tab
- Find the option 'Hide extensions for known file types'
- Uncheck the box corresponding to the option
- Now you would be able to see the file extensions
