This probably sounds grossly ignorant, but...

[Mastertank1]

I have some photos saved as .doc files in word; can anyone tell me, step by step, how to get them to appear in posts so I can share some of them with the rest of the forum?
They include one item of my non-tickling artwork, and lots and lots of lovely barefoot photos of famous women.
PM me with it, if possible?
Thanks
Mitch.
Thanks

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Saved as DOC files or within DOC files? I'm going to assume they are inside of a Word Document rather than the document itself (i.e. your image is or was image.jpg and you changed it to image.doc, which makes no sense). If so, there are a few ways, the simplest of which requires Powerpoint.

-Open your word document that has the images in it and open Powerpoint as well. Make sure you have a blank slide you can paste something on in Powerpoint.

-Now, right-click your image in word and select "Copy." Bring up powerpoint. right-click somewhere on the blank slide mentioned earlier and select "Paste." Your image should appear in Powerpoint.

-Now, right-click on it in Powerpoint and select "Save as picture." Choose where you want it saved and name the file to what you want. You're done!

EDIT: Do you need to know how to post them as well? If so, here it is:

-Once you have the images saved, open the TMF and go to a new reply or new thread (The page where you type out your post.).

-Scroll down below the text box and find "Manage Attachments." Click it. A popup window will open.

-In that window, use the "Browse" buttons to find your image files and select them. Click "Open" once you've done so (One image per browse button). Once you have all you want to upload (Or the maximum of five), click "Upload." Wait until all are uploaded (The names will replace the browse buttons when done) and then you can submit your post. The files will be in it.


If you don't have Powerpoint, let me know and I'll determine another solution for you.

 

[Mastertank1]

Saved as DOC files or within DOC files? I'm going to assume they are inside of a Word Document rather than the document itself (i.e. your image is or was image.jpg and you changed it to image.doc, which makes no sense). If so, there are a few ways, the simplest of which requires Powerpoint.

-Open your word document that has the images in it and open Powerpoint as well. Make sure you have a blank slide you can paste something on in Powerpoint.

-Now, right-click your image in word and select "Copy." Bring up powerpoint. right-click somewhere on the blank slide mentioned earlier and select "Paste." Your image should appear in Powerpoint.

I do have powerpoint; up until the step above everything went fine, but the image never appears in powerpoint. The 8 little squares ina rectangle show up, but the space bettween them is blank.

If it makes a difference, the images are Corel Photohouse 5 images saved in Word .doc files. I have three saved versions, they are all different sizes on disc. The smallest is 705 kb, the next is 751kb, the third is 17.2Mb. I don't know why. None of the three will appear in powerpoint, just the 8 little squares marking the outline.

Any ideas?

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Corel Photohouse 5? Do you know what the extension is on these images? If it isn't .jpg, .png, .bmp, or .gif, then Powerpoint probably won't take them.

Let me think...well, there are three more things you can try. One may be simple: Have Corel Photohouse 5 open when your Word document is open. Repeat the previous procedure, only this time have a blank "picture" open in Corel. (I'm not sure how Photohouse works, but usually its File>>>New and then you specify the size of the new document). Paste your copied image into that new Picture file. If that doesn't work, let me know and we'll move to plan two.

 

[Mastertank1]

Corel Photohouse 5? Do you know what the extension is on these images? If it isn't .jpg, .png, .bmp, or .gif, then Powerpoint probably won't take them.

Let me think...well, there are three more things you can try. One may be simple: Have Corel Photohouse 5 open when your Word document is open. Repeat the previous procedure, only this time have a blank "picture" open in Corel. (I'm not sure how Photohouse works, but usually its File>>>New and then you specify the size of the new document). Paste your copied image into that new Picture file. If that doesn't work, let me know and we'll move to plan two.

I mentioned that I have three versions of the picture saved in word docs. No matter which one I try to paste into photohouse, it ignores the smaller ones and opens the 17.2 megabyte image, which I know id way too big to put on TMF.
What's plan B?
And thanks again for taking the time to answer!

 

[His Divine Shadow]

And you can't resize it in Photohouse? Alas. Well, Plan B is sure to work, although you may need an additional program to do it. I'm not sure if Corel is capable of doing this. What you'd need to do in Photohouse is create a new, blank document the same size as your screen resolution (800x600 pixels, for instance). Once this is created, go the the Word document with your image in it and make it so the image is completely visible on your screen, nothing cut off. Once done, look on your keyboard for a key that says something like "PrtSc" or "Print Screen" on or near it. You'll need to hold the "ALT" key and hit that "Print Screen" button. This will copy what is displayed on your screen at that moment. You can then go into Corel and paste it into the blank file.

HOWEVER: from what I've read on Corel, it seems like it can only save things as bitmaps, which are almost always massive files, and this copied image will be no exception. You may need a second program to save them as something like a JPEG image, which offers greater compression. In fact, if you use the image you were already able to copy (The one that was too large and I assume was a Bitmap, .bmp), you can skip this whole print screen thing and convert that. I'd suggest downloading the 30-day trial of Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/tryout.html

Once you install it, open the large file you created earlier in Corel Photohouse and go to File>>>Save For Web. A dialog window will pop up. Look to the right in that window and look for a drop-down box with "Preset:" next to it (I'm working in Photoshop CS2, so please tell me if it is different in Elements 4.0). In that drop-down box, select "JPEG Medium" or "JPEG High." Look to the bottom left, below the preview image. See a size there? That's the new size of your file. If it is still too big, adjust the quality setting on the right downward until you hit the right filesize. Then save and upload.

Let this one know if that worked.