How to keep original image dimensions for images in Microsoft Word 2007?
When I'm importing images into a Word document, if the image is a small image like 100x100px, then the image is imported as something like 300x300, thus making it hideously blurry.
This necessitates myself resizing the image so that it looks not as blurry, but it does not look the same at all.
It also seems that it happens with png files but not bmp files.
Is there a way to import the image at its original size?
Open the image in a browser, preferably Firefox or Chrome, and copy the image.
Turn view of the document to "web layout".
Paste the image in -- it should appear in full resolution.
You can now change back to your standard view and try to handle formatting from there.
This is the ONLY way I've been able to get it to work half-way right (especially using large resolution images), finally I'm getting the full resolution though. Of course your pages may not be able to display the full-size image depending on the actual resolution, so if you want them visible saving them in a format such at html may be preferable.
In Word 2010 it makes no difference if you use print view or web layout view, the above will work in either.
If you do have software to adjust the ppi of the image: Word uses 96 ppi so any 96ppi image scaled at 100% in Word will look at its sharpest.
For years I've struggled with the same problem: Screenshots inserted via Cut&Paste (or Word's own function "Insert screenshot") sometimes get blurred, sometimes not.
But it seems I've found a stunningly simple solution now (Windows 7, Word 2013):
- Switch your document to Print Layout (View->Print Layout).
- Set the zoom level to 100% (View->100%).
- Paste your image from clipboard or use Word's Insert->Screenshot function.
The key is to zoom to 100% - with any other zoomlevel, the inserted screenshot image gets blurred.
Note: This works for me even if I adjust the Windows 7 display scaling to more than 100% (96 dpi) (via Control Panel->Display).
After having copied the image, use MS Word's Paste Special option. Select Paste as Device Independent Bitmap option. That should do the trick.
In Word 2010, I found that just right-clicking the (scaled-down) picture, selecting Size and Position and then clicking the Reset button restores the image in its full glory.