I answered a question from reader Glenn Wilkes, who wanted to know how to capture images that were in a PDF file and copy them into a Microsoft Word word processing file. This week, several readers wrote about alternate ways to accomplish the same thing.

Longtime subscriber and frequent commenter Janusz Lukasiak wrote:

Hello Terry,

There is a simpler way:
In Adobe Reader click on the ‘Select’ tool and draw a frame around the image (or diagram, or text or…). The selected area will be highlighted. Then right click and select ‘Copy image to clipboard’ (that’s the only option anyway). Now go to Word document and paste….

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