Hi all,



I have a client who needs me to place his letterhead into word so he can type over the top (it is a property company and the detail over the top is for each property).

To achieve this in the past with Letterheads I have simply placed a JPEG of the letterhead in the Word document as a watermark.

However there have been some issues with quality on this one, and to get the desired level of quality the image I am placing in is a 5mb jpg.

There is a main header and a run on header meaning the end Word document is now 9mb which the client needs to be lower.

How can I get the outcome I need of the images in the word document at a high quality but without the huge Word Doc file size?!

I considered placing a pdf as an object instead of an image - would that work??

Thanks!

You could insert the picture as linked image into the document template; that way it's available to all documents based on the template, without the need for any of them to actually contain the image. A possible advantage is that, if you decide to change the image, changing the one linked file will update all the documents linked to it; in some situations that might be a disadvantage, so use wisely.

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Paul Edstein
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Thanks Macropod for this advice.

I presume if I use this method, I will need to send them the image and the word document or the document will lose the link to the image.

I'll have a google on how to do this, but if you could advise, Id be grateful.

Thank you

Just thinking on about this - png files are obviously small in file size than a jpg. Would that work? Why are png files smaller in size than jpg's - and how would word handle them differently? Will test this later!

Since the paths used by INCLUDEPICTURE fields to link an image to a document are always absolute (and would need to be so for this approach to work), the setup would either have to be done on the client's system or on another system with the picture held in a folder whose drive and path are an exact replica of the client's, so that the link's path, as contained in the template, will work on the client's system.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]