Crop tool in Word

[hydeyho]

I'm putting together a large document for my uni work that contains approx 60-70 screenprints. Many of these have been cropped to just show certain sections of my webpage. The file size is huge, because even though the picture is cropped, the rest of the picture still exists (ie if you select the crop tool again and drag the image the rest of the picture will appear). Is there any way to finalise the images in Word to delete the remainder of the image from memory (without using PS, etc) ???

 

[TELFORDS_LURK]

Dont think so, I'm an IT Technician at the countries leading comprehensive.
We get this quite often with people making docs that are 60+ meg full of screen shots, pasted straight into word, then wonder why the document keeps crashing or they run out of network storage space.

Best thing to do is to do the screen shots properly in a photo editor, making them into jpg's and then inserting them. I know you dont want to do it as it seems like a really nasty job, but if a jobs worth doing..... as they say .

Chris

 

[Andy.]

Office 2003 has the option to delete the cropped area from the "compress pictures" button on the picture toolbar. It can do all pictures in the document in one go.

I cannot say whether it was in the previous versions. Just open a batch job in PS and do all pictures in one go if not.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Don't know if you know but a bit of a tip, if you want a certain window, press 'Alt' when pressing 'Print Screen' and you just get the active window.

 

[hydeyho]

Office 2003 has the option to delete the cropped area from the "compress pictures" button on the picture toolbar. It can do all pictures in the document in one go.

Cheers mate, worked a treat, knocked about a 1/3 off the file size without actually compressing the picture, just removing the cropped area.

 

[hydeyho]

Don't know if you know but a bit of a tip, if you want a certain window, press 'Alt' when pressing 'Print Screen' and you just get the active window.

Yep, been doing that, I just needed a certain section off a webpage so could only get round the problem using the crop tool.

 

[hydeyho]

Dont think so, I'm an IT Technician at the countries leading comprehensive.

I used to be an IT Tech at TNT and had enough problems with users, cant imagine how difficult it must be working with annoying school kids, especially when they are obsessed with clip and word art!!!!

 

[TELFORDS_LURK]

I used to be an IT Tech at TNT and had enough problems with users, cant imagine how difficult it must be working with annoying school kids, especially when they are obsessed with clip and word art!!!!

Strange sometimes, they only really see us when somethings gone wrong. For example their PC's crashed and they havent pressed the save button in the last 3 hours they've been working on it, they leave with a strop because we cant get it back. They must think theres like some special button we can press when a PC locks up to make it all work again. Which there is, its on the front of the machine, often has a green light and if you hold it in for 5-10 seconds can do wonders , then hope for the best for a recovery from words 10 minute auto save.

Oh, and the line: " its really important, its my coursework " gets dropped quite often, like thats gonna help when they bring a disk in with the protective slider missing, half chewed by the dog and then wonder why we cant recover anything.

All great fun.