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Any Microsoft Designer experts about?

Si_Clist
Si_Clist Posts: 1,584 Forumite
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edited 3 January at 7:46PM in Techie Stuff
Some time ago, my wife played about with some images in MS Designer to see if she could get on with it.   She didn't like it, so subsequently deleted the files that she'd saved from her doings in it.

Long story short ... last week she found out that she needed some of those files, and the only copies we could find were the ones in her OneDrive account. 

They now have the Designer project numbers as the filenames!  When double-clicked, these opened in Designer edit mode (black background, orange "edit" label top left, zoom slider bottom right), from which page she downloaded each one in turn and recovered the files to her laptop.  Or thought she had ...

What she now has is actually a folder of downloaded jpegs which, when double-clicked in the Windows "downloads" folder, open looking just the same as they were downloaded i.e. as an image on a Designer "Edit" page - not as a plain ordinary jpeg file!

How do I sort this mess out for her so that she once again has them as a bunch of plain ordinary jpegs which open in File Explorer without this Designer baggage?  
We're all doomed

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  • Heedtheadvice
    Heedtheadvice Posts: 2,948 Forumite
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    edited 3 January at 8:50PM
    I am not a Designer user let alone and expert...
     but when opened in Designer in from one drive is there a save as option?

    Update I see now that there probably isn't!

    So I assume she wants the diagram not an editable file.

    Second though, is a print to pdf any good?

    Just trying to give ideas till an expert comes along
  • Si_Clist
    Si_Clist Posts: 1,584 Forumite
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    Hurrah!  Problem solved as Madam has decided after all that she can manage without those files ... 
    We're all doomed
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