Why are images and scanned docs appearing so huge in Microsoft Office?

DemiDee

Hi all,

My scanned documents and downloaded photos from my camera always come up in Microsoft Office (2010) so huge, way bigger than the screen. I constantly have to reduce the size of each manually by at least 50% to get a decent sized image that fits to the screen. It's getting tedious now.

Anyone else have this problem, or am I doing something wrong?

RobTang

Well lets take a 8 megapixel image from say a camera phone.

This is equivalent to a monitor with a native resolution of 3264x2448, which is roughly 4x the size of a full HD screen.

You do need that kind of details to get decent print images however.

DemiDee

Many thanks, Rob. So does this mean I've simply got to keep re-sizing every photo and scanned document manually?

Oblivion

Not sure if it's available in Office 2010 but I'm using Office 2013 and whenever I paste in a huge photo in a Word document it automatically resizes itself within the right and left margins. There's a setting somewhere in the Advance Options to achieve this.

This comes at a price though, as does the manual rescaling you are doing. The file size remains the same even after resizing the image in Word, so you end up with humungous sized Word documents.

It's much better to resize (make smaller) your images out of the camera in photographic software first (I use Paintshop Pro) before copying and pasting them into Word. That way the document file size stays smaller.

When scanning a document to import to Word, your scanner control software should have menu options to determine the pixel size of the scanned image.

DemiDee

Many thanks, Oblivion, for your thorough and helpful comments above. I actually have no problem inputting pictures into Word, strangely enough. My problem is when I download all the photos from my camera into Office 2010. I'll definitely check out my scanner settings, but since it's always been this way, and since it's happening both when downloading pics from my camera and when scanning, I'd assumed that it is related to Office and not to the camera or scanner settings.

cookie365

Why are you downloading all your photos into Office?

What do you actually want to do with the photos?

DemiDee

cookie365 wrote: »

Why are you downloading all your photos into Office?

What do you actually want to do with the photos?

Cookie, I have always downloaded into Office - no reason really, other than that I'm not too technically-minded and this is what my default provider was when I bought the computer. Also, Office makes it easy to crop and re-size, but I'm getting tired of re-sizing them all.

I just download folders from my camera to store folders of memories on the computer. Occasionally I will send select photos via email or put them onto a website, but it's mainly for storage purposes.

googler

In that case, you should merely be saving your photos from your camera as FILES on your PC, not faffing about with Office.

Connect camera, open it as a folder if it doesn't do so automatically.

Copy/paste a picture or group of pictures from the camera to a location on your PC - a folder within My Pictures, for instance.

If you want to just view them, use the Preview function within Windows, or get a free download picture viewing program

DemiDee

This is what I already do, Googler - my pictures then open in Microsoft Office by default when I open them to view.

martin2345uk

What exactly do you mean by Microsoft Office? Office is a collection of software applications... which one are your photos opening in?

googler

When you resize them, are you keeping the original, and making a resized duplicate, or are you replacing the original with the resized version?