[Tip] How to Extract or Save All Images from Word Document At Once

If you have a Microsoft Word document (doc or docx) containing lots of images and you want to extract or save all images at once without using any 3rd party software or online services, this article will help you.

Almost all of us use Microsoft Office suite to create documents, Excel sheets, presentation slides or to check emails using Microsoft Outlook. If you regularly use Microsoft Word program to read or view documents for Office or other purposes, there might be situations when you need to save or extract all pictures embedded in the Word document on your computer system.

For example, you received a Word document containing family or group photos or wallpapers and you want to save all photos on your PC. Or you received a document from a client containing several important images and you need to download and save those images on your hard disk drive to modify them.

We all face such kind of situations when we need to export all or some images from a Word document local offline on our computer to view them later or modify them.

Saving One Image or Picture in Microsoft Word Document

Microsoft Word allows saving images embedded in a document by right-clicking on the image file and selecting “Save as Picture” option from the context menu.

But you’ll need to repeat this step for all embedded images individually. There is no built-in way provided to save all images in bulk.

Saving All Images or Pictures in Bulk in Microsoft Word Document

So how to save or extract all embedded images present in a Word document in a single attempt? There are many 3rd party software and websites available to do this task for free but in this article, we are going to share an easy trick which will help you in extracting all embedded images from a Word document at once without using any software or online service.

The trick involves saving the document file as Webpage (htm or html). I’m using this trick since many years. You can use this trick in almost all Microsoft Office versions including the good old MS Office 97 version.

If you also want to save or extract all images present in a Word document at once, following steps will help you:

1. Open the document in Microsoft Word app.

2. Now click on FILE menu present on the ribbon toolbar (or classic menubar present in older Office versions) and select “Save As” option.

3. Select Computer option and click on Browse button. (In older versions of Word, you may not need this step).

4. It’ll open Save as dialog box.

Now select “Web Page (*.htm;*.html)” option from the drop-down box given next to Save as type option.

Select desired folder to save the file and click on “Save” button.

5. That’s it. Now open File Explorer (also known as Windows Explorer, This PC or Computer) and go to the folder where you saved the HTML file.

You’ll see the HTML file along with a new folder with the same name as of HTML file along with _files at the end of the folder name.

Open this folder and you’ll see all images embedded in the Word document extracted and saved successfully inside the folder.

NOTE: Copy or move the images at a safe place because if you delete the HTML file in future, it’ll automatically delete the _files folder containing images.

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