Importing photos from documents

[OldJedi]

I am a recent convert to iMac. Even so, this should be simple--but I am missing a step I guess.

I received an email with several attachments in the doc format. They are photos and scanned images I want to save. The creator just imbedded a photo into the document and added caption text.

I want to import the photos into iPhoto and save them, but I cannot figure out how to make this happen.

I can open the attached document in pages, and I can see the photos with the little squares on each corner. I have tried dragging to iPhoto, I have tried cut and paste. I cannot seem to get the photos.

When I import the attachments into iPhoto, it attempts the doc format and of course it is unrecognizable.

What am I missing?

 

[Dysfunction]

Extract images from a Word document (doesn't matter if that's a windows machine, the software should be the same.. and function the same)

once you have them as images somewhere, then you can import into iPhoto.

 

[OldJedi]

Interestingly, although this didn't work for my document files, I was able to pull images from the html file you linked to. Maybe the problem is in pages.

I don't have office. I am viewing these documents in pages, which came with the iMac. I have saved the email attachments to the desktop as document files (*.doc) to eliminate iMail as the issue.

I open the document in pages. I can drag the image (which appears as a grayed-out silhouet) to the desktop, but when I release the mouse button the image is not saved there as it is when doing the same with the html page's image.