From the course: InDesign Secrets
154 Extracting images from a Word document - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
154 Extracting images from a Word document
Somebody just sent me a Word document and I'm going to place it inside this InDesign template. I'll go to the File menu > choose Place and then select it. There it is HOA2.docx. I'll click open and InDesign loads it up into the place cursor, and to import it, I'll I have to do is hold down the Shift key + Click. Remember, Shift + Click tells InDesign to load the entire document, not just this one page. And it'll add additional pages, as necessary. Let's go look at some of those pages. I'll press Option + Page Down, or Alt + Page Down on Windows. And we can see that InDesign imported all that text and the images. That's right. There were images embedded inside that Word document. There's various ways that people get images into Word documents. Usually, they just copy and paste them. It's nice that InDesign imports those embedded images right along with the text, and in fact, if we look inside the links panel, we can see all those images came along with the ride, and they're all embedded in my InDesign document, too. That's what that little graphic over here means. That means the image is embedded inside the InDesign document. It does not appear anywhere on disc. Now that might be a problem. I usually like to have my images on disc so that I can edit them later if I want to. You cannot edit images if they are embedded in the InDesign document. Also the InDesign document is made larger with each embedded image. The larger the image the larger the InDesign document. So it turns out that there's a pretty simple way to get the images out of InDesign and onto the hard drive. Here's what you do. Click on the first item in the Links panel, then scroll down to the bottom, and Shift + click on the last one. That selects all the embedded images in the Links panel. Now all I have to do is go to the Links panel menu, and choose Unembed Link. Now, InDesign asks me this very strange question, do you want a link to the original files? Of course, I cannot link to the original files because I don't have them anywhere, they're in the Word document. So, all I'm going to do is click No and InDesign asks me where do I want to save them. I'll create a new folder here and I'll call it my Image Folder. You can call it anything you want. I'll click Create and then click Choose and InDesign goes through my entire document un-embedding each of those images, putting them in the folder, and then re-linking to them so that this image is now linked to the proper place on my desktop. Now, as it turns out, there's another way to get those images out of the Word document, and it's a super secret trick, and I just have to tell you about it. Here on the Mac I'm going to switch back to the finder, on Windows it would be switching to Windows Explorer. And I'm going to take a look at this docx file that somebody sent me. You may not realize that these docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of data inside of them. It's true, and all of those images are hiding inside of that docx file, ready for me to extract. Let me show you how to do it. First, I'll duplicate this file, so I don't mess my original. I'll just right-click on it, or a control click with a one button mouse, and choose duplicate. Now, I'm going to change the name of this. I'm going to rename this from docx to dot zip. When I press enter, the Mac will ask me, do I really want to use zip? Sure. Let's use Zip. And you'll see it turns into a Zip Archive. Now, I just need to double click on it. Both the Mac and Windows can automatically unzip that so I can see the folder. Double click on it, look inside Word, look inside Media, and look at that, all of those images that were inside the Word document are right there for the taking. I could just copy them right out, or just drop them right in to InDesign. However you get your images out of your Word documents, you've got to admit that this is a pretty cool trick. Now if you want even more cool tricks having to do with Word and InDesign, you should definitely check out Anne-Marie Concepcion's title here on the On line training library, called using Word and InDesign together
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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