some days ago i’ve wrote you a post on how to import excel charts in indesign and how to import excel tables in indesign.
now… i’m sure you find yourself quite used to getting the images and text supplied from customers are in MS word formats.
and inserting them within layouts with simple copy paste operation is quite a nasty job.
so, here’s how to simply import it to photoshop or indesign (with a trick that’s valid for both windows and mac os):
1. open the Word document containing the images you want to import to indesign or photoshop.
2. from the file menu, choose save as web page. this saves the text of the document as an htm file and the images as PNG and JPeG files in a folder, both with the name of the original document.
3. Inside the image folder you’ll find all of the document’s images at their original resolution (the png files), as well as smaller versions for previews (the jpeg files).
4. you can place these files directly into indesign or edit them in photoshop.
so this is it! it’s not a real ” image import”, but it saves time and it’s as simple as that! 
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Or you just Drag-and-Drop them on the Photoshop surface…
as simple as that…
thanks for that suggestion.
it doesn’t work that way though. at least not on a pc. maybe on a mac that works.
one other pro of this method is that this way, the link indesign link to the image is still valid so if you modify it than this reflects on the layout.
thanks though though your suggestion!
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My question is “Where is the images folder?” I cannot locate it.
This is pure genius. I work with people who think Word is a photo friendly program and keep sending me photos embedded in text documents. It’s been driving me absolutely nuts but now …
Bruce, I presume the images folder is located in the same location as where the Word file is… is for me.
Thaks for this extremely useful tip. You made my day.
wow - brilliant (for Mac user, at least). I really appreciate your insight. Saving me much time. As Ralph said, grabbing the web clip from Word or even getting a screenshot is not always good enough.
thanks!
Ha! Brilliant- I spent all yesterday afternoon trying to work out how to do this- thank you!
another method would be to place the word file in indesign. open up the links and there should be all the pictures that you had in word. then select all and right click on mouse and “unembed link” and choose “no”. Then you choose a folder in wich to deploy the files (any folder) and then you have the files and that’s it.
excellent saved me hours - on a PC it works a treat!
It works perfectly even with PC. You just have to look for the new folder and enter with your photoshop program into this folder to find all the pictures saved individually. Thanks!!!
okay, I followed your instructions, but now it’s a locked layer or something and I can’t move it or unlock it or add papers to the page or anything! Help!!
Thank you Johnny! Word doesn’t give me the option to save as a web page, so I tried your method. Worked like a charm, plus I lost all the silly formatting the source document had from word, which is great. All the images are their original size and neat and tidy in a little folder. Whew.
Thank you so much! This saved me hours and hours of cut and paste!!!
Thank-you !! This has saved me a whole lot of hassle !!
grt….. job done.. thnx..
YOU ARE A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL PERSON! and I appreciate you SO MUCH!!