switching items to edit them from files how? please help?

Question

how do i switch a jpg document to a microsoft document so that i can make it smallers?
thanks a lot

Answer 1

A .jpg is not a document type, but rather a photograph type. It is impossible to change the format to that of a document type. Different document types are .doc, .txt, etc. You could easily change a .txt document, which opens in notepad, to a .doc document, which opens in Word.

While you can do this with simular types, you can't do so with totally different types of media. It would be rather like changing an apple to an orange.

Hope this helps, good luck and please have a nice evening.

*edit* Do you mean a document which has been scanned? If so, the situation is the same. You would need a special application which allows you to scan a document and have it be a Word file, rather than a photo file.

You see, when you scan a document, it is really turned into a picture, thus the .jpg file extension. You need a program which enables you to scan as a word format, and not a photo format. There are plenty of apps out there that enable this feature for a printer, just Google it. I would do it for you, but I am too tired, and this is my last question of the night. Some printers come with this type of application, mine does, and I just haven't had any need to use it as yet.

Answer 2

right click the picture and choose open with. Microsoft photo editor should be a choice, you can make it smaller in there.
You can paste the picture into a word document and then resize it on the document, but not by much.

Answer 3

a jpg document? do you mean an image of a document?
I don't know of a way to do that except through an OCR, an optical recognition program, like the kind that comes with scanners. ABBYY is one. simpleocr is a free one, but I've never used it.
Read what this guy has to say
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/10/01/Free-OCR-software_3F00_-You-may-already-have-it_2E002E002E00_.aspx