Get to “Format Picture” by your preferred method – I right click on the picture.

Now choose “Layout” from the list of choices. In the Mac 2008 version it looks like this – yours may differ, but the same choices will be there:

Now click on “In front of text,” which shows the dog in front of the lines:

Your picture appears like a rabbit in freshly planted lettuce patch.

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Whatever software you want to use, that picture is in the wrong format. Word to the rescue!

If, for example, you just removed the pink highlights from the boss’ receipts in Photoshop so they wouldn’t appear blacked-out when you fax them with his expense reports (are you a star, or what?), but now you need to insert them into something that only accepts JPG (okay, I can’t come up with a reason why you would need to do that…just go with it), you can solve it with Word.

Insert your PDF into Word (Insert…Picture from file)

Right click and choose “Save as Picture…”

In the “Format” drop down box, choose “JPG”

Voilà!

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The point of these software specific directories is to collect the experience of the people in our role  who really use the it, as opposed to that of tech writers who try to imagine how we’ll use it. Documentation is all well and good, but nothing helps as much as a peer.

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Steps

• 1. Scan the page you want to convert into a Microsoft Word document.
• 2. Save the scanned image in *.gif, *.jpeg or whatever format.
• 3. Open that image, go to “File->Save As” and name it “xyz.tiff” in the “TIFF” format as shown.
• 4. Go to “Start->Programs->Microsoft Office Tools->Microsoft Office Document Imaging”
• 5. Go to “File->Open” and open your scanned document that has been saved in *.TIFF format.
• 6. Go to “Tools->Send Text to Word.” You will get a prompt stating this process will take time, Click OK. This will take some time depending on your computer’s speed (a minute or two at the most).
• 7. When it’s done it will open up Microsoft word on its own and the scanned document will now be in editable mode.

Things You’ll Need

• Microsoft Word 2003 or newer
• Scanned image of the document you want to turn into a Microsoft Word document

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