[Pat Garard]

I sit rebuked!
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Hey, guys, simmer down! I think both of you gave valid answers based on your
interpretation of the question. It is not unusual for users to ask how to
"open" a picture in Word (which would be similar to "converting" a picture
to a Word document) when what they really need is to insert the picture in
Word. It's also far from uncommon for users not to understand that text
scanned as a picture is not editable until it has been OCR'd. Unless the OP
posts back to indicate which was the intended meaning, I don't think we can
be really clear from the wording of the question which interpretation was
the correct one--and it may be some of both: if the JPEG is a scan of a
document, and all the OP needs to do is read it, then inserting it into a
document will suffice.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Pat Garard" apgarard-bigpond:net:au wrote in message
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My! My!

What an angry little person you must be!

You poor thing!

Did you have a nasty Mummy and Daddy?

Or is it that you didn't know your Daddy?

The OP asked how to CONVERT TO, not insert into, a Word
DOCUMENT - presumably s/he would like to edit it.

Perhaps you are not having a good weekend - I will think nice
thoughts about you, and hope that you'll soon feel better.
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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"Poprivet" wrote in message
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You ****ed or something? Go read the original post.

Pat Garard wrote:
G'Day Page449,

When you scan a document, a 'picture' (i.e. an image) of the document
is created - the type of image (jpg, gif, tif, bmp ... etc) depends
on the software used with/by the scanner. In your case it was a jpg.

That image may be manipulated only by graphics (i.e. drawing)
software, which could also be used to convert it to TIF format
(below).
To obtain an editable document you need to use Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) software. This 'reads' and 'recognises' parts of
the image as 'writing' and the result can be sent to (say) Word.

Please research:
a. The software that came with your scanner (if you have one) -
is it OCR? If so it should be able to open the jpg for
recognition. OCR software may be purchased separately.
b. Microsoft Office Document Scanning (with recent versions of
Office) c. Microsoft Office Document Imaging (with recent versions
of Office) - will open a TIF file.

If b/c are installed they can be found in
StartAll ProgramsMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft Office Tools

"page449" wrote in message
news I received an email with a jpg attachment. I need to convert this
to a WORD document, but can't seem to figure how to do it! Can
anyone help? (I'm NOT a well-skilled PC user!)

Many thanks!