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The keyword to my question i "paste", not "save".
My company uses a tool that will evaluate the Word documents we made, and one of the criteria is all the images must be in JPG. Regardless of what 3rd party screenshot I used (Lightshot, Greenshot, ShareX, Skitch), the pictures will always be pasted as PNG in Word. The tools have setting to save the image as JPG, but only for save, not copy to clipboard as JPG. This means whenever I paste an image from screenshot, it will be pasted as PNG, then I have to cut and paste special as JPG. Problem is most of my screenshots involves small details, and when cutting and pasting from an already pasted image, the resolution becomes significantly worse. I tried the "do not compress" and "high fidelity" options in Word, but no improvement in image quality.
So the only option I can think of is making sure when an image is copied into clipboard, it is already in JPG, so I don't have to repaste the image. Can anyone help guide me on how to do this?
Edit: So I found out that regardless of what image type you copy on, Word will always paste it as PNG. To convert it to JPG, you have to cut from the already pasted image in Word, and paste it again as JPG, which resulted is significant loss in quality. It seems it depends on the source of the image you copied from, where if Word doesn't recognize it, you can only paste in the default image format. If I can somehow change the default paste format in the registry that would be great.
naj690
Posted 2019-12-20T03:39:39.227
Reputation: 11
How do you know it is the screenshot process and not Word that is saving the file as PNG? – music2myear – 2019-12-20T04:00:08.123
If you do have that requirement don't paste it but rather include it. If you are having problems with small details it's unlikely that's due to it being PNG as PNG, in comparison to JPEG, is a lossless format. Which is probably also why Word favors PNG over JPEG. – Seth – 2019-12-20T06:36:01.077
@music2myear honestly I don't know which is the issue, the process or Word itself. If it's due to Word and there's a solution for it, I will be happy too. I just want to make sure when I pasted it, it will be in JPG. – naj690 – 2019-12-20T08:08:02.913
@Seth can you clarify what do you mean by include it? Meaning save as attachment? Unfortunately I have to paste it for the report customer's convenient. – naj690 – 2019-12-20T08:10:46.280
1Instead of pasting an image just include it through the option to insert an image. You might also want to bring it up that PNG isn't a bad thing and could even improve the quality of the documents you create. – Seth – 2019-12-20T09:49:59.873
@naj690 Are you tied to the the third party screenshot tools? The Windows Snipping tool will default to whatever format you last saved to and paste in that format. – KnotWright – 2019-12-24T15:46:56.287
@KnotWright no, I am not tied to the screenshot tool. When I used windows snipping tool, you are right that next time I take a shot it will default to whatever format I last used, but it is only for "save". When I paste it in word, it will still be as PNG. – naj690 – 2019-12-26T01:02:42.190