As above really.
I would like to post a doc on FB but it does not seem possible to post a Word doc; it's only one page. I can of course take a photo of my screen but in this day and age this seems daft.
iMac 24″, macOS 14.4
Although Apple's Preview application once opened and displayed Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, it no longer offers this feature in Sonoma. If you have Apple's Pages v14.1 (Mac App Store), it can open your Word document and its Export panel now offers Images… where you can select the page number, image format, and then Save…
Although Apple's Preview application once opened and displayed Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, it no longer offers this feature in Sonoma. If you have Apple's Pages v14.1 (Mac App Store), it can open your Word document and its Export panel now offers Images… where you can select the page number, image format, and then Save…
You could just take a screenshot (CMD-Shift-5) of the document as long as you first zoom out to a level that shows the complete doc on the screen. Screenshots are PNG images by default. (With CMD-Shift-5 you can select the portion of the screen you want to screenshot.)
Or you could save the doc to PDF and use Adobe's free online Convert PDF to JPG utility.
Can I answer my own question?
Convert docx file to pdf, then export to jpg (only jpg will work). Then click on the Share icon, then chose Add to Photos. And there it is. Only took me 3 hours to work it out.
For a .docx file, I have to convert to a pdf then save as a jpeg, which I can then post to FB. All this for over 1.5K. That's why I thought I was doing something wrong.
I use newpaper articles, and this works but is messy: with previously saved articles to docx, convert it to pdf, export ..., then choose jpg and save. It will upload to FB.
I have managed to take my docx file, and put into Photos, but for the life of me I now cannot work out how I did it.
why not just take a screenshot and cut away the stuff you don't want in the phone?
Word has a "Save as..." option for pdf:
I use that all the time. Much easier than opening another app, and should post like an image.
You open the Word document in Pages. Then, from the File menu you select Export To, and on that panel, see my image.
Hi,
Following tip could help your question.
Click “File” from the Preview menu, and then click “Save As.” A dialog box opens. Type a name for the file, then click a folder on your Mac where you want to save the JPEG file. Click the “Format” drop-down menu, and then click “JPEG.” Click “Save” to save the file as a JPEG image file.
Hi kaz-k. I couldn't get your suggestion to work. Then I read the other post that advised that Sonoma does not provide the feature you advised. Its a real pain. Thanks anyway.
Hi. The 'free' Adobe convert utility you advise is only free for a week.
Just opened Pages, and so far 'juk', but early days. And my Pages does not look like the photo you included here. And my doc was from a newspaper which confused Pages no end.
Is it possible to convert a Word doc to a photo?
