Tutorial - Graphics in Word

Large Documents in WordWord can handle large amounts of text fairly well, but often the incorporation of graphics will bogdown the system, causing corruption of the document and/or frequent crashes. Below are some tips forminimising the negative impact of graphics on your documents.Use the appropriate format.Word, by default, embeds graphics into the file. This makes it simplet to transport documents, but itcan quickly increase the file size to the point where storage and transportation is a problem and Wordhas difficulty assigning enough memory to open and edit the document. One of the ways of improvingthis situation is to use compact formats for your graphics.PhotosUse JPEG (.jpg) format. When saving the JPEG file, specify a medium quality. Word automatically blursplaced images, so any small artifacts in the image will be smeared anyway. At the final size in thedocument, the photo should never have more than 300 dots per inch, and 200 dots per inch is adequatefor most photographs. As an example, your digital camera might take photos 1024 pixels x 768 pixels.This would look fine in Word at a size of 5 x3.5 . If you only need the photo to been 2.5 x 1.75 inWord, scale the photo down to 512x384 pixels before placing it in Word. The file size will only be …what it was with the original shot.Clip Art and ScreenshotsArtwork that has areas of flat color is usually best saved as a GIF (.gif) format. Rather than pastingthem directly into Word from the ...