Web images using Word – resizing a large image

posted by ABrittain, May 12, 2006 1:50 AM — 2 comments

1. Create a folder giving it a relevant name (eg – pictures) to save the file to. Open a new Word Document.

2. Insert the original image into a Word document.

(Menu) – ‘Insert’ – ‘Picture’ – ‘from file’ – navigate to folder with original image, click on image file then ‘insert’ The picture is inserted into the Word Document

3. Resize it relevant to the size wanted on the web page

Left Click on the image – resize by dragging one of the corner ‘handles’ toward the opposite corner to reduce (or away from it to enlarge) the image.

Left Click on the image then – (Menu) ‘Edit’ – ‘cut’ – then ‘Edit’ ‘Paste Special’ and select ‘Picture’ from the list.
Left Click on the image again then – (Menu) ‘Edit’ – ‘cut’ – then ‘Edit’ ‘Paste Special’ and select ‘Picture (JPEG)’ from the list.

Left click away from the image to de-select it.

4. Save the Word document as a web page

Save the document as a web page - (Menu) ‘File’ - ‘Save as’ ‘Web Page’ (from the drop down menu in the box next to ‘Word Document’), and save into the folder giving it a relevant name (eg – pictures). The warning regarding the positioning of the image can be ignored – click ‘cancel’. The page will then open as a Word web page named ‘pictures.htm’.

This web page can now be closed. (It can be deleted from the folder if not required)

5. Using the resized images

Open the folder ‘pictures’ - the web page created (‘pictures.htm’) will be in the folder. There will also be a folder called – ‘pictures_files’. Open this folder – the resized image will be there, renamed as ‘image001.jpg. This smaller image should be suitable for web page use.