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How to Extract Images from DOCX, XLSX and PPTX Files?
Summary:- Do you have some crucial images or pictures saved inside your Word documents? Or embedded images, graphs, illustrations, or drawings inside Excel workbooks or PowerPoint presentation files? Sometimes you may need all these graphical data urgently. What will you do in such a situation? You would copy the images or the other graphic items one by one and paste them to MS Paint to save them individually in an image format. Don’t you think this process is tedious and time-consuming? In this blog, we will try to cover the possible method to extract images from DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files. It also includes the suggestion of the MS Office Recovery Toolkit, which contains multiple best tools for successfully managing Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and files.
Why Do We Need to Extract Images?
Just imagine a scenario when you receive a Microsoft Word document from one of your friends, which has some embedded images or pictures (assume 100). You need all those embedded images. If you copy those 100 images one by one and save them individually, it will take a lot of time. You must be looking for an easy way to extract those pictures from XLSX, DOCX, and PPTX Files. Don’t you!
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How to Extract Images from DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX Files?
There is a manual trick using which you can extract all the images, illustrations, and drawings in a single shot. But before performing this, create a backup for those files. Then, follow the below-mentioned steps to save all the images of MS Office files separately on your system:
- Make sure you perform this technique with a backup copy of the original document.
- Locate the backup copy of the document and open it to see the actual embedded pictures.
- Now close the file as you extract the embedded images.
- Here we start! First of all, change the file extension of the MS Word document, i.e., from “.docx” to “.zip. “ It can be done by renaming the file.
- After renaming the “.docx” file extension to “.zip,” hit ENTER to execute the action. You will be asked to confirm the action. Click Yes to do it.
- If this is done successfully, the file icon of the Word document will be changed from the W Word icon into a ZIP or archive icon.
- Now open the ZIP to see the actual structure of MS Word’s DOCX file.
- Open the folders one by one to locate the images. The images are usually stored in the folder named “images.”
- Once the images have been located, extract ONLY them as you need the photos only.
Conclusion
Extracting images from the Office files isn’t that tough when you are using the above method. But, the problem is that it is a laborious and time-consuming process. To make these efforts fewer and reduce the time consumption, you can opt for the MS Office Recovery Toolkit, which lets you recover the corrupt files and extract images from DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files. I hope you find it helpful.
About The Author:
Simran Bhatia is a technical content writer engaged in writing clear, concise, and SEO-optimized content. With a background in computer science and a passion for writing, I thrive to deliver complex technical content in simple layman terms.
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