Click on “Advanced” tab from the word options and check the “Do not compress images in file” option as highlighted below in red box. Check the “Do not compress images in file” option. Delete the pictures that were compressed, and reinsert them using the “Picture” command on the “Insert” tab of the ribbon. Apr 6, 2011 - Microsoft Word has a “feature” that compresses your images to 220ppi after saving. This saves file space for your documents, but images at this. No offense, but the Compress Pictures dialog window you're referring to does not reflect the actual resolution of an image. Nor does Mac Word automatically compress images provided the document is saved in the.docx or.dotx file format*.
Disabling Picture Compressing In Word For Mac
No offense, but the Compress Pictures dialog window you're referring to does not reflect the actual resolution of an image. Nor does Mac Word automatically compress images provided the document is saved in the. Hp ut ledm driver for mac. Dotx file format. The File Reduce File Size command simply is an available feature if the user chooses to invoke it, just like applying a shadow, cropping, etc. If not, images are stored at the size/resolution at which they are inserted.
IOW, a 2MB 600 ppi TIFF is stored as a 2MB 600 ppi TIFF. The setting of 220 ppi is nothing more than the default option applied if one clicks OK.
There is no means in the program for determining the resolution of an image.Please note that I have not been able to get definitive confirmation of this from anyone at Microsoft - but nobody has contradicted me, either:-) My interpretation is based on having dismantled. Docx files & extracting the images contained within them. In all cases the image files were at full size & resolution when examined in Photoshop or similar graphics programs unless the compression feature was specifically applied. What sometimes contributes to the impression that the image has been compressed is that when viewing in the document on screen the program does provide a low resolution rendering in order to avoid having performance degraded while editing - nothing bogs the program down more than hi res graphics. However, when printed, the full resolution image stored in the file is used. Please mark HELPFUL or ANSWERED as appropriate to keep list as clean as possible ☺ Regards, Bob J.