We currently had a harddrive malfunction on one of our computers. I backed up all the documents before having the computer repaired. Unfortunately, I did not think to backup the "pictures" folder. We lost quite alot of pics used in our everyday business. The good thing is alot of the pics are pasted into excel docs.

Now my questions is: How can I move these pics from excel into another program to be viewed in the "picture" folder?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

You will have to manually save every picture one at a time. If you are creative you can do more then one at a time.

How to save pictures:
1. First open up the excel document which contains the photos you wish to save

2. Once open just copy the picture and paste into a photo editing program. I suggest you download GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ *not going to mention any other programs because it is the best open-source photo editing program available.

3. Now just save your photos with the correct file format *GIMP defaults all files as .xcf if you do not state otherwise. I recommend .jpg .

4. Your Done! *Repeat as necessary

How to save multiple pictures using GIMP:
1. Use all the steps above

2. When getting to step 2 as listed above. Make open up a new image Ctrl-N but make your image large enough so it fits the largest photo you will be pasting.

3. Now just paste the first photo and right click the layer in the layers window. If the layers window is not visible press Ctrl-L on your keyboard and it will show up. Select New Layer.

4. Go and copy all your pictures to GIMP until all pictures are pasted into one GIMP file but are on separate layers.

5. Now just select each photo individually Ctrl-A and look at the Size of it in pixels under the GIMP window.

6. Create a new image Ctrl-N that is the exact pixel size and do step 3. Which is listed above.

7. Do this for all your layers until complete.

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