Microsoft Word is a very versatile application, and there are a lot of features that you probably will never use it. However, there are a lot of useful features available like image compression tools. If you are submitting images online, then most of the sites have limits about size, height, and width of the image.
Well, for that you don’t have to use any third-party application, Microsoft Word does a great job in image compression. Only by a few steps, you can compress an image to your desired size and DPI.
Since Microsoft Word is also available on macOS, therefore we will also discuss the steps to compress images on Word in macOS. The steps are different in MacOs then in windows, but the features that we are going to use are the same.
Further instructions to compress the image in MS Word will be mentioned further below for both Windows and macOS. However, before proceeding, make sure that you add an ALT text to an image because sometimes it is hard to understand images, and the ALT text can describe the content.
How to Compress Images in Microsoft Word Windows
Step 1) Firstly, open up Microsoft Word, drag and drop the image to the MS Word and then click on the Picture Format tab on the menu bar.
Step 2) Now, click the Compress Picture option in the Adjust group under the Picture Format tab.
Step 3) A prompt will appear, select the desired compression that you would like to apply in the image. Suppose you want to compress the image size to a minimum. Then select the smaller DPI option, for e.g., E-mail(96 PPI).
