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MS Office Forum / Word / Graphics / May 2006Crop Tool in MS Word 2003
Greetings. I have many scanned images that I have been inserted into a long MS Word 2003 file, but these images have dark margins (from a book sloppily xeroxed) have to be cropped. If I use the standard cropping tool that comes with MS Word 2003, it takes a relatively long time to crop each image, so I was wondering if there is any tool available that can be used in MS Word (perhaps similar with the SnagIt cropping function), but will involve very few mouse clicks: say, first select the area to be cropped, then click on an icon (or whatever) to crop the image, and then I can go on to the next image on the pages to repeat the procedure. I will deeply appreciate any help or advice concerning this matter. If the images exist outside the Word document (that is, if they were saved as separate files), I find the Microsoft Office Picture Manager does a good job with cropping. You can set a desired aspect ratio and automatically crop to it or turn that off and crop freehand.  SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Greetings. I have many scanned images that I have been inserted into a long > MS Word 2003 file, but these images have dark margins (from a book sloppily [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > on the pages to repeat the procedure. I will deeply appreciate any help or > advice concerning this matter. another problem that has arisen (you may not notice yet) - but importing pictures into word document increases the size of the document to ridiculous 10's of megabytes - the imported/cropped picture shoould be converted to metafiles - these are compressed pictures with virtually no loss provided you are cropping consistent sized borders off the pictures - it is possible to automate the whole process (incl convertion) with a macro (1 click) > Greetings. I have many scanned images that I have been inserted into a long > MS Word 2003 file, but these images have dark margins (from a book sloppily [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > on the pages to repeat the procedure. I will deeply appreciate any help or > advice concerning this matter. Hi Jethro, What procedure are you using to insert pictures into Word? If you're using Insert=>Picture=>From File and saving in Word's default .doc format the inserted file size increase should often be not much greater than the disk file size of the graphic. Do you have a sample of the macro you mentioned you can post? ======== another problem that has arisen (you may not notice yet) - but importing pictures into word document increases the size of the document to ridiculous 10's of megabytes - the imported/cropped picture shoould be converted to metafiles - these are compressed pictures with virtually no loss provided you are cropping consistent sized borders off the pictures - it is possible to automate the whole process (incl convertion) with a macro (1 click) >> SignatureBob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* i insert a lot of pics by screen capture - prolly why they end up so huuuuuuuuuuuge (bitmap i think) but beside the picture type - something else to consider: when you crop a picture in Word - it retains the cropped areas (for uncropping later), which again has a big impact on doc size - i got a couple that ended up a whooping 30 megabytes macro i use frequently: Sub CompressPictures() Dim x% With ActiveDocument.InlineShapes For x% = 1 To .Count .Item(x%).Select Selection.Cut Selection.PasteSpecial , , wdInLine, , wdPasteMetafilePicture Next End With End Sub basically cuts the existing pictures - paste them back as low-loss metafile & removes cropped areas perminently - can make big reduction in doc size note this only deals with inline pics (all i ever use) - you would need to run the loop again for any floating pics "Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote > Hi Jethro, > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* Just a thought but if you made up a square version of the Autoshapes/Basic Shapes/Donut you could simply copy it over each picture. I.e. 4 rectangles grouped to form a square donut, set to fill white line white. > Greetings. I have many scanned images that I have been inserted into a long > MS Word 2003 file, but these images have dark margins (from a book sloppily [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > on the pages to repeat the procedure. I will deeply appreciate any help or > advice concerning this matter. Thanks, Keith, but this is too time-consuming. All I need to do is make a quick rectangular section, crop the image, and go to the next image and do the same. The native MS cropping tool is far too cumbersome to do the job (it requires one side to be cropped, then the other, and so on). There has got to be some way to hid those ugly margins, but remember the files is louded with hundreds of scanned book page images. > Just a thought but if you made up a square version of the Autoshapes/Basic > Shapes/Donut you could simply copy it over each picture. I.e. 4 rectangles [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > on the pages to repeat the procedure. I will deeply appreciate any help or > > advice concerning this matter. |
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