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Here's the easiest way to extract images from a Word document. With this tip, you can also get the images in their original dimensions i.e the file size, height, width, quality etc before it was inserted into the Word document.

1. Open up the Word document.
2. Go to File >> Save As Web Page. This opens the Save As box.
3. Select 'Web Page' in the 'Save as Type' drop down list.

4. Click Save.
A new folder is created in the same directory with a name that ends with _files. The images are saved to this folder.

Second Method:
There is one more way to get rip images from Word documents, but you may not get the pictures in their original dimensions with this one. You must have Active Desktop enabled for this method.

1. Open the Word file.
2. Drag the picture from the Word file to the desktop. This opens a confirmation box that prompts you to save the picture.

Click Yes.



I personally prefer the first method. It gives you all the images in a document at one go; plus it can retain the quality of the original image. Enjoy!
Tested on Windows XP with Office 2003.

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Not all websites provide printer friendly pages. A printout of most web pages will have unwanted texts, ads, images and other stuff. Wouldn't it be great to print only that is needed and remove content that you don't need?

This is where the website PrintWhatYouLike becomes useful. Just provide the url address of the webpage to PrintWhatYouLike. You can then proceed to format that page by removing unwanted stuff and keeping only the content you want to print. Just select the frames, texts or images that are not needed and hit the delete button. A right-click menu is also provided.
You can then print the modified page directly. All this is done online.

What's more, you also get to save some printer ink! Check it out.

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