[jed]

Im trying to change a word image to a JPEG image for a work program.

I presumed I need to download software but didn't know which was recommended

Any Ideas?

[lagerstarfish]

If your using windodos, Paint should be hiding in your programs under Accesories - this will let you save as a jpeg

[butters]

Irfanview will also do it - it can be downloaded from here.

bluebrad

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

You may have sorted this by now, however If you drag and drop or copy and paste the image into Powerpoint, right click on the image and 'save as picture' you can save as JPG or a variety of other picture formats.

[slackline]

Word (and indeed PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher) doesn't have an image format per se it uses the proprietrary formats .doc and more recently .docx (although it can save to other formats such as .rtf and .html and so forth).

Perhaps what you have is an image embedded within a word document.  This image may be one of many formats such as .wmf (Windows Met-file), .jpg (GPEG), .bmp (bit-map), .png (Portable Network Graphics) and so forth.

To get the best resolution copy of the image (assuming you don't have access to the original), you probably want to open the word document up, scroll to the image and left-click on it once.  This selects the image, you can now right-click and select copy, which will copy the image to your clipboard.

Now open up Paint/IrfanView/GIMP/other image program and paste this into a new image, then save it as one of the above described image formats or one of your choice (optimal choice will depend on the intended use of the image).

slack

See here for a fairly complete list of file formats.

[jed]

Thanks

Ill be downloading IrfanVeiw then.


Thanks for the advice.