Sometimes, you may find yourself in a position to want to convert a Word document into a picture. Such circumstances may arise when textual information is required, but you can only send it over in a pictorial format. If this was something that concerned you, today we will be discussing how you can convert your Word document into a picture. This tutorial will show you how to save your Word document in the picture format of your choice (jpg, png, etc.)
How to save a Word document as an image?
There are three ways in which you can convert and save your Word document as an image.
- Using the Screenshot feature in MS Word
- Using the Print Screen option on Windows
- Using the Save as Picture feature.
1] Save document as an image by using the Screenshot feature in MS Word
Microsoft Word includes a Screenshot feature which is available in the Insert tab. Its main purpose is to take screen clippings of the active windows opened on your PC. Here’s how you can use it to save either one or multiple pages of a Word document as a picture:
- Firstly, open the document you want to be saved as a picture.
- Visit the View tab on MS Word and look at the Zoom section. If you want to save just one page of a document as an image, click on One Page. Else, select Multiple Pages
- Now, click on File > New to open a new Word document
- Click on the Insert tab and from the Illustrations section, select Screenshot
- In Available Windows, you’ll see the document that you had previously kept opened. Click on Screen Clipping and crop out that section of the document that you want to save
- Right-click the inserted screenshot, and select Save as Picture from the context menu
- Select the file format of your choice and save it,
2] Save document as an image by using the Print Screen option
If you are using an earlier version of the Office Suite, don’t worry. You can use the Print Screen option to turn your Word document into an image. The only limitation here is that you can take a screenshot of only one page at a time.
- Open the document that you want to turn into an image.
- Click on View and under Zoom, select One Page
- Now tap the Prt Sc key on your keyboard to take the screenshot of the Word window
- Paste this screenshot on the Paint app and crop out the area that you want to save
- Select one of the formats for a picture and click on Save
This method isn’t exactly convenient and may result in the loss of picture quality of the document, but it is the best way to get the job done without requiring any third-party screen capturing apps.
3] Save document as an image using Save as Picture feature
The third way around this is to use the Save as Picture option from the Word context menu. Here’s how:
- Open the document that you want to save as a picture. Now, highlight and copy the important portion of the document
- Then, go to File > New > New Document
- Here, right-click to open the Context Menu and from Paste Options, select Picture
- At a first glance, it would appear like a normally copied portion of text pasted on a new document, but you’ll notice a box surrounding the text. That box allows you to adjust the dimensions, as per the image you want
- Once you’ve finalized that, right-click on the image and select Save as Picture
This will open a Save as Picture dialog box. Change the file’s format to JPEG File Interchanging Format and click on Save to process this change. You’ll then find that your select portion of the document has been saved as a JPEG image.
We hope this tutorial works out well for you.
How do I copy an image from a Word document?
If you want to extract and save images from a Word document, there is a very easy procedure in place for that. Simply open the section where the picture is, right-click to open the context menu and click on Save as picture. You can further read this article where we discuss how you can extract images from a Word Document without using any software.
How to reduce the size of a Word document?
If you are someone who is concerned about the high size of their Microsoft Word files, there are several things you can do to mitigate this issue like compressing the images in the document and avoiding using any third-party embedded fonts. In this article, we discussed some more measures and how to compress and reduce the size of a Word document.
