Wils Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I want to E-mail just a photograph I HAD somewhere on my computer, can't find it now exept on a word document. How can I lift the picture from the word document to be able to E-mail it, right clicking the photo doesn't bring up the 'save picture as' option, anybody any ideas? BobW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezShells Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 right click, copyon desktop, pasteTry that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissie Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Try copying and pasting the whole document, then deleting any of the text you don't want to send, leaving just the photo. (Not a computer person but it works for me!)Chrissie (81) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfa Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Hi Bob,Try this;Start >Search >Files or folders >All files and folders >in the search box type *.jpg* and then search.This will find all the jpegs on your machine.Alfa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Avery Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I think you will find that should be *.* jpg. Of course it all depends on what it was created by and saved as, it could be a tif or BMP, if it is, do a similar search using *.* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfa Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Either or Ron.Both will do it.Searching *.* will of course find every single file on the machine with a dot in it, which is all of them !Alfa.Alfa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Doesn't Windoze automatically save pictures in My Pictures - or am I imagining it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dick Smith Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 As you know I'm not a PC person, and that sort of thing really is easier on a Mac, but I got a new Dell at work recently, and that seems to default to putting pic in My Pictures. On other machines I've resisted that and made my own folders, but it really seems to work quite well. Mind, I've only a few pictures so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Avery Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Yes both work, but *.*jpg or doc or xls etc used as I have done for years for searches only finds the file extension that you are looking for, in my experience, it does not find all files with a . in the name as you suggest. Try it.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 The little bit of MS-DOS that I remember tells me that *.*jpg is meaningless. It would have to be *.jpg etc, the second asterisk means that it will search for ALL files, as someone said earlier. *.* made sense years ago when we thought we were cool with 20Mb hard drives... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ron Avery Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Dick/Debra*.* jpg finds all files with a .jpg extension not just those with a deb. xxx. .jpg formatI have used the *.* for searching for years at work when I was section IT manager and at home, and I can assuire you that it does not find any other files than the file extension that you put after the *.* Not sure how a Mac works, but as word is written in DOS the same way as it was years ago, why should it have changed? Try it if you don't believe me.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ChezShells Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 you lot don't half fanny aboutI suspect the original poster has managed to sort it, or have they? Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debra Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 In fact it searches for all files with "*.* jpg" in the file name, which is what I would expect - and it wouldn't have worked in DOS because there were only 3 character file name extensions. I'd paste a copy of the search screen to show you but I can't work out how to on here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dick Smith Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 An excellent point - why doesn't someone just try it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Avery Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 It might not make sense Debra but it works. I use it all the time. With XP and its shared documents and folders it puts things all over the place.Its not *.* on its own that you put in, that brings up all files. In the case in point you put in *.* jpg. Go to your XP search facility, in file name, type *.* followed by the type of file extension that you want to find bmp, jpg, doc, gif, xls ,wps, etc. Please try it and you will see it only finds the type of file that you are looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alfa Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Nice one Ron !Stick to security.Alfa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alfa Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Debra,my reply was to Ron.I was just (jokingly) suggesting that he stick to his particular trade which according to his profile is 'safety' or security as I described it.One of the downsides to forums is the input of eager amateurs who venture into professional arenas.The result is (sometimes) inaccurate information.Alfa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wils Posted March 26, 2006 Author Share Posted March 26, 2006 Yes Lee, thanks to a white knight who I have sent the document to for the extraction of the photos. Regards BobW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerdesal Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 Just out of interest, I have just tried *.*tif and only got back my tiffiles, similiarly *.*jpg only returned my jpg files. Using XP Pro sp2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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