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Q: How can I change a Microsoft Word document file into a picture file?

How can I change a Microsoft Word document file into a picture or jpeg file? I am wanting to make the image I created my background on my macbook pro.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), Microsoft Word

Posted on Mar 8, 2015 8:15 PM

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Q: How can I change a Microsoft Word document file into a picture file?

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  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Mar 8, 2015 8:18 PM in response to PJLove83
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    Mar 8, 2015 8:18 PM in response to PJLove83

    That question would be better directed at the Microsoft Word forum since it is a Microsoft product:

     

    http://support.microsoft.com/product/office/word

     

    Cheers,

     

    GB

  • by Jay-Ray,

    Jay-Ray Jay-Ray Mar 8, 2015 8:18 PM in response to PJLove83
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    Mar 8, 2015 8:18 PM in response to PJLove83
  • by PJLove83,

    PJLove83 PJLove83 Mar 8, 2015 8:59 PM in response to PJLove83
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    Mar 8, 2015 8:59 PM in response to PJLove83

    Thank y'all for your help. After a couple hours of me and my husband trying, (very sad I know!), I accidentally figured it out.

  • by gail from maine,Helpful

    gail from maine gail from maine Mar 8, 2015 9:05 PM in response to PJLove83
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    Mar 8, 2015 9:05 PM in response to PJLove83

    Well, YAY!!! That's good news

     

    If you could share what you did, and then mark your post as Solved, it could be of help to other users with the same question in future!

     

    Cheers,

     

    GB

  • by PJLove83,Solvedanswer

    PJLove83 PJLove83 Mar 8, 2015 9:36 PM in response to PJLove83
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    Mar 8, 2015 9:36 PM in response to PJLove83

    After I had the document image the way I wanted it, I saved it as a web page and went from there. Below are the steps starting after I did the "save as" option in Word:

    1) Select "Save As Web Page". I changed the location from documents to pictures when the window came up to save it as a web page.

    2) Go to "Finder" on you main screen, or if it's on your main toolbar at the bottom.

    3) Click on the "Pictures" tab and find the file you just re-saved as a web page. (I included "web page" or something similar in the new title so I could easily find the correct file I was looking for)

    4) Open the correct file and then "right click" on the actual image. (Use 2 fingers to do so on a Mac)

    5) Select 'Use Image As Desktop Picture", and voilà! The personally created image, or whatever it is that you wanted, is now your background.

     

    **One problem I encountered while doing this is that the image would show up like it was right-aligned in relation to the whole screen. The only way I could figure how to fix this was to go back to the very original document in Word, (the one before it was saved as a web page), and move everything over to the left.

     

    I hope this helps someone else who was as frustrated as I was with something that I thought would have been very simple to do! If you have any tips or suggestions of your own, please feel free to share. : )