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Marguerite Krupp wrote:<BR><BR>>Does the technique of changing the file extension to .zip require <BR>>that the graphics be imported by reference, so they exist as separate <BR>>files when unpacked?<BR><BR>First, note that it is *not* necessary to change the filename extension. All that is necessary is to open it with a tool like WinZip that looks past the extension to see what's inside the file itself. <BR>
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Second, the word/media folder you will find inside the Word file will contain a graphic object for every graphic in the document whether it was pasted, inserted by reference, or embedded as an editable object. Graphics that are in a vector format (WMF, Visio objects, etc.) are in the word/media folder as .emf or .wmf objects, and raster graphics seem to be in .png format. I was just working on a document that had a mixture of pasted vector figures, pasted raster images, and embedded Visio drawing objects, and all of them were present in the word/media folder.<BR>
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Third, if the graphics were imported by reference you'd already have spearate external files for each one, so there seems to be little point in extracting another copy from the Word document.<BR>
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-Fred Ridder <BR> </body>
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