Making a Word Doc With Photos or Images Into a Blog Post
I'm working on a Captivate that I want to make into a blog post. I have already published a uPerform simulation as a Word doc that I also want to post to this blog, but initially I thought I would have to individually save every single screenshot in the doc by using "Save As Picture..." in Word, then place each image manually into the blog, then re-type all the instructional text. Thankfully, I found a (slightly) better way.
The first thing I did was export all the images in my Word doc into a separate folder. I did this by saving the Word doc as a web page. This is done by choosing "Save As" and then selecting "Web Page" as your document format.
Word automatically generates a folder with the same name as the document, which contains all the images in the doc.
Most blogs will allow you to "mass upload" more than one image, so adding all the pics to your blog is *pretty* easy – though there's one little hitch.
If the Word doc you are converting to html has come from a simulation, Word generates two versions of each image after exporting them out of the doc. So you have to either go through and delete one of each image in your folder that Word automatically created for you, or in the blog after you've imported the images. Note that Word doesn't seem to do this if the images in the doc are regular screenshots or photos, it's just if they came from a simulation that was saved as a job aid or "handout," i.e., a Word doc.
Once I did this, I understood the puzzling business of the "squished" images that were appearing in my Word doc from the Captivate I talked about in my last blog post. The images weren't "squished" so much as "stretched."
Word seems to have generated both a high-res full size version and a "squished/stretched" version, and I could tell them apart when looking at the large thumbnails in the folder by whether they were distorted-looking or not. It wasn't as easy to tell the difference between the duplicates that came from the simulation I made in uPerform, but you could still see that the versions appear to differ in resolution. (Note: I don't currently have access to Bridge or Lightroom, but it would def. be easier to deal with this if you were using either of those tools.)
If you do this with a doc that was generated from a Captivate simulation, the caption text will already be on each image. In my sims I think this looks kinda goofy, but it's still less time-consuming than re-typing all the caption text into my blog post.
If you want to use a doc that was generated from a uPerform simulation, you will still have to manually type in all the accompanying text, or copy-paste it from your doc, which will take you a bit of time.
...But at least you've eliminated the lengthy nightmare of saving each picture in your simulation as a series of individual files. Even taking into account deleting all the duplicated images, you've probably given yourself back at least an hour of not manually saving each image individually.
Anyhow, my next blog post will be generated from a uPerform simulation, and the one after that will be from a Captivate.
The first thing I did was export all the images in my Word doc into a separate folder. I did this by saving the Word doc as a web page. This is done by choosing "Save As" and then selecting "Web Page" as your document format.
Word automatically generates a folder with the same name as the document, which contains all the images in the doc.
Most blogs will allow you to "mass upload" more than one image, so adding all the pics to your blog is *pretty* easy – though there's one little hitch.
If the Word doc you are converting to html has come from a simulation, Word generates two versions of each image after exporting them out of the doc. So you have to either go through and delete one of each image in your folder that Word automatically created for you, or in the blog after you've imported the images. Note that Word doesn't seem to do this if the images in the doc are regular screenshots or photos, it's just if they came from a simulation that was saved as a job aid or "handout," i.e., a Word doc.
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| Duplicate screenshot images from an Ancile uPerform simulation that was converted to a job aid, i.e. a Word document |
Once I did this, I understood the puzzling business of the "squished" images that were appearing in my Word doc from the Captivate I talked about in my last blog post. The images weren't "squished" so much as "stretched."
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| Duplicate screenshot images from a Captivate simulation that was saved as a Handout, i.e. a Word document. |
Word seems to have generated both a high-res full size version and a "squished/stretched" version, and I could tell them apart when looking at the large thumbnails in the folder by whether they were distorted-looking or not. It wasn't as easy to tell the difference between the duplicates that came from the simulation I made in uPerform, but you could still see that the versions appear to differ in resolution. (Note: I don't currently have access to Bridge or Lightroom, but it would def. be easier to deal with this if you were using either of those tools.)
If you do this with a doc that was generated from a Captivate simulation, the caption text will already be on each image. In my sims I think this looks kinda goofy, but it's still less time-consuming than re-typing all the caption text into my blog post.
If you want to use a doc that was generated from a uPerform simulation, you will still have to manually type in all the accompanying text, or copy-paste it from your doc, which will take you a bit of time.
...But at least you've eliminated the lengthy nightmare of saving each picture in your simulation as a series of individual files. Even taking into account deleting all the duplicated images, you've probably given yourself back at least an hour of not manually saving each image individually.
Anyhow, my next blog post will be generated from a uPerform simulation, and the one after that will be from a Captivate.
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