Extracting an Embedded Photograph from MS-Word

Perhaps this is something millions of people already know, but it’s new to me. Suppose you have an MS-Word document with an embedded photograph, and you would like to transport the photograph to a web page as a JPEG image. Since the photo doesn’t exist apart from the MS-Word document, how do you do this?

I needed to do this for the Longwood University Physics blog. I have a nice photograph of the University’s first physics graduate, but it’s embedded in an MS-Word document. I wanted the photograph for a blog article. My first guess was to select the photo and copy it. Next, I opened Adobe Photoshop and selected File, then New from the top menu bar. This opened a window into which I could paste the photograph. But apparently not all the pixels are carried over in this operation. The result is washed out, or however you’re supposed to describe it. It doesn’t look right. But have no fear, dear reader. Eventually, MS-Office came to the rescue.