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Losing resolution when pasting as jpeg
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Anonymous
Hello,
My problem is that during about the last couple of weeks when I paste a picture from Word into another Word document as Paste Special then selecting jpeg, the picture resolution of the pasted picture declines. Before it always declined when I pasted as jpeg, but now I lose even more resolution. For example, the letters in text boxes don't paste as slanted lines but as little boxes arranged diagonally. The resolution in the pasted picture used to be better when I pasted as jpeg.
My company during the last couple of weeks made some kind of update that involves MS software, and that update disabled Macros and I had to enable macros for each session. I told IT and I believe they somehow enabled macros permanently. I'm just wondering if any of this upgrade my company did also caused the loss of resolution when I paste pictures as jpeg.
In any case, does anybody know why the resolution of my pasted pics has declined, and how I can fix it? I still need to paste as jpeg because pasting as enhanced metafile uses too much file size.
When I paste as jpeg on a different computer run by a different organization that has not done any updates recently I do not have this problem. I only lose a tiny bit of resolution, like I always did when pasting jpegs. I suspect my company did something that affects the picture resolution when pasting.
I am running Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on both computers.
Thank you,
Steve Keller
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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator2022-03-11T20:21:43+00:00 -
Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2022-03-12T03:41:40+00:00 OK, it must be something about the way your computer is set up as there is absolutely no degradation of the image here.
What happens if you just use CTRL+v to paste the picture into the new location? Or, if you right click and then left click on Save as Picture and save the picture to a location on your computer and the insert it from that location?
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Anonymous
2022-03-11T22:31:51+00:00 The picture you are copying first has to be set as "Tight" from the Wrap Text option in the popup menu, from right clicking on the pic.