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Grayscale option in Word 2007
Earlier versions of Word had a Format/Picture option of changing an imported
color picture to grayscale or even 1-bit black-and-white. I have found most of the other commands, but can't find this one. Is it there, or do photos and scans have to be 'decolorized' before they are imported into Word? |
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Grayscale option in Word 2007
Right-click on the picture - Format picture - Picture - Recolor - Color
modes - the fist one is grayscale. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... Earlier versions of Word had a Format/Picture option of changing an imported color picture to grayscale or even 1-bit black-and-white. I have found most of the other commands, but can't find this one. Is it there, or do photos and scans have to be 'decolorized' before they are imported into Word? |
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Thanks, JoAnn,
That was easy! What I miss, however, is an indication of the change having been done. Before you could click the photo, open the Format/Picture box, and see that the color photo had been reset to grayscale. The grayscale icon in Word '07 does not appear to be highlighted or otherwise indicate that the clicked photo adheres to that option. Jim "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Right-click on the picture - Format picture - Picture - Recolor - Color modes - the fist one is grayscale. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... Earlier versions of Word had a Format/Picture option of changing an imported color picture to grayscale or even 1-bit black-and-white. I have found most of the other commands, but can't find this one. Is it there, or do photos and scans have to be 'decolorized' before they are imported into Word? |
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I'm not real sure what you mean. When I click on grayscale, the picture
changes immediately. I don't need an icon to tell me my graphic has changed when I can see it for myself. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... Thanks, JoAnn, That was easy! What I miss, however, is an indication of the change having been done. Before you could click the photo, open the Format/Picture box, and see that the color photo had been reset to grayscale. The grayscale icon in Word '07 does not appear to be highlighted or otherwise indicate that the clicked photo adheres to that option. Jim "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Right-click on the picture - Format picture - Picture - Recolor - Color modes - the fist one is grayscale. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... Earlier versions of Word had a Format/Picture option of changing an imported color picture to grayscale or even 1-bit black-and-white. I have found most of the other commands, but can't find this one. Is it there, or do photos and scans have to be 'decolorized' before they are imported into Word? |
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Yes, right you are. BUT... if I have a grayscale picture to begin with,
and scan it normally, it's imported into Word with all the 'color' information intact, just as if it were a color shot to begin with. It sure looks gray on the screen, but I'm nervous that the printshop will call and say, "hey, is this a black and white job or not?" Perhaps I just don't understand how Word saves pictures in its internal format, but I figured that if a photo was converted to grayscale within Word, then it is saved as grayscale and all the color information is gone. I had this very problem with Publisher files that I saved as PDFs and sent to a shop to make film positives for silkscreening. Some logos and line drawings within Publisher were TIFs, and they sure looked like 1-bit black and white images, but the shop called and insisted that there was either RGB or CMYK data associated with them. I had to pull those images into an Adobe program and re-save them as grayscale, even though they looked black and white (only) to begin with. Then when I put them back into Publisher and made a new PDF the film shop was happy. I don't know why they would complain about color files when the film itself was monochromatic, but it gave their output device fits. "JoAnn Paules" wrote: I'm not real sure what you mean. When I click on grayscale, the picture changes immediately. I don't need an icon to tell me my graphic has changed when I can see it for myself. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... Thanks, JoAnn, That was easy! What I miss, however, is an indication of the change having been done. Before you could click the photo, open the Format/Picture box, and see that the color photo had been reset to grayscale. The grayscale icon in Word '07 does not appear to be highlighted or otherwise indicate that the clicked photo adheres to that option. Jim "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Right-click on the picture - Format picture - Picture - Recolor - Color modes - the fist one is grayscale. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... Earlier versions of Word had a Format/Picture option of changing an imported color picture to grayscale or even 1-bit black-and-white. I have found most of the other commands, but can't find this one. Is it there, or do photos and scans have to be 'decolorized' before they are imported into Word? |
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If you print a "color" B&W image to a color printer, the black will be
created as a composite of the inks in the color cartridge instead of black ink. My commercial printer frequently complains about the camera-ready copy he gets that is composite black. All my CRC is laser-printed, so that's not an issue, but evidently it's quite a problem for printers using traditional offset techniques, who have to shoot film. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... Yes, right you are. BUT... if I have a grayscale picture to begin with, and scan it normally, it's imported into Word with all the 'color' information intact, just as if it were a color shot to begin with. It sure looks gray on the screen, but I'm nervous that the printshop will call and say, "hey, is this a black and white job or not?" Perhaps I just don't understand how Word saves pictures in its internal format, but I figured that if a photo was converted to grayscale within Word, then it is saved as grayscale and all the color information is gone. I had this very problem with Publisher files that I saved as PDFs and sent to a shop to make film positives for silkscreening. Some logos and line drawings within Publisher were TIFs, and they sure looked like 1-bit black and white images, but the shop called and insisted that there was either RGB or CMYK data associated with them. I had to pull those images into an Adobe program and re-save them as grayscale, even though they looked black and white (only) to begin with. Then when I put them back into Publisher and made a new PDF the film shop was happy. I don't know why they would complain about color files when the film itself was monochromatic, but it gave their output device fits. "JoAnn Paules" wrote: I'm not real sure what you mean. When I click on grayscale, the picture changes immediately. I don't need an icon to tell me my graphic has changed when I can see it for myself. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... Thanks, JoAnn, That was easy! What I miss, however, is an indication of the change having been done. Before you could click the photo, open the Format/Picture box, and see that the color photo had been reset to grayscale. The grayscale icon in Word '07 does not appear to be highlighted or otherwise indicate that the clicked photo adheres to that option. Jim "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Right-click on the picture - Format picture - Picture - Recolor - Color modes - the fist one is grayscale. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... Earlier versions of Word had a Format/Picture option of changing an imported color picture to grayscale or even 1-bit black-and-white. I have found most of the other commands, but can't find this one. Is it there, or do photos and scans have to be 'decolorized' before they are imported into Word? |
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