See & control bit map format when cut & paste

Question

I did a screen capture, pasted into Powerpoint, cropped the image, then tried pasting into Word.  The result was good as long as I simply used Ctrl-V.  This presumably pasted as "Microsoft Office Graphic Object", since that is the selected format when I tried Paste->Special.  In both cases, the sharpness  of the image is maintained.

The difficulty is that I don't want that format because it retains the content that is cropped, which is orders of magnitude larger than the part I want to retain.  I tried to paste using other bit map formats (JPG, PNG), but the quality is substantially degraded.  This is very odd, because the original image was a screen capture, which is bitmap.  I can see JPG degrading sharpness, but why would another bitmap format degrade sharpness, unless there was some unnecessary change in resolution?

I even tried saving the image from Powerpoint to a file using a bit map format, then inserting it into Word.  I get the same loss of resolution.

Under other circumstances, one solution might be to using the Snipping Tool to capture only the portion of the screen that I want, but that's not possible here.  The content I want are like tool tips -- they only show when the pointer hovers above certain features.

My questions are how to preserve the sharpness of the image when pasting into Word, without the unwanted payload of the cropped portions of the image, and why there would be loss of sharpness when both the source and destination image are bit map?

P.S. I just tried Enhance Metafile (EMF), which doesn't seem to carry the unwanted cropped portion of the image.  I base this on the fact that pulling back the crop handles does not reveal the cropped content -- it only reveals blankness.  However, EMF seems to use almost as much disk space as Microsoft Office Graphic Object.  Since I intend to paste many images in a similar fashion, it adds up quickly.

P.P.S. One work-around is to zoom into the portion of interest in Powerpoint, then use the Snipping tool to capture the region of interest, then paste into Word.  The sharpness is retained, and the file size is not nearly as bloated as using EMF or Microsoft Office Graphic Object.  It just seems like a really backward requirement for something that seems like it should be straightforward.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, I'm in a corporate locked-down environment.  But I do wonder why a bitmap-to-bitmap copy and paste would create what appears to be a change in resolution.

Answer 2

Get hold of SnagIt from www.techsmith.com.

With it, you can capture tool tips that show when the mouse pointer hovers over an item