How to Extract Images, Text, and Embedded Files from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Documents

Say someone sent you a Word document with a lot of images, and you want you to save those images on your hard drive. You can extract images from a Microsoft Office document with a simple trick.

If you have a Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), or PowerPoint (.pptx) file with images or other files embedded, you can extract them (as well as the document’s text), without having to save each one separately. And best of all, you don’t need any extra software. The Office XML based file formats–docx,...

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