How To Remove All Images Quickly from a Word Document
How To Remove All Images Quickly from a Word Document
Microsoft Word is known to be a word processor that was developed by the Microsoft. It was first released on the 25th of October 1983, under the name Multi-Tool Word for the Xenix systems. More of the subsequent versions of Microsoft were written later for different other platforms including the IBM PCs that was then running DOS (in 1983), The Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (in 1985), The AT&T UNIX PC (in 1985), The Atari ST (in 1988), The OS/2 (in 1989), The Microsoft Windows (in 1989), SCO Unix (in 1994), and The macOS (in 2001).
If what you need is to quickly remove all the images and the graphics from a Microsoft Word document, then it is really easy to use a built-in option to delete all of them at once. Here is a way to do it.
How Does This Image Removal Technique Works?
Microsoft Word has an included feature that is called “Find and Replace” to help you find items in your documents and to help also to replace them with something you have already chosen. Making use of this feature, you can easily find all the images in your document and then you can easily replace them with nothing. This will remove the images and will then leave a blank space where they were located.
As a slight drawback, making use of this technique will also remove all charts and all graphs from your document. If that is fine with you, then you can continue to read on.
How To Delete All the Images Totally from Your Word Document
1. To start removing all of the images, first open your document with Microsoft Word. In the menu located at the top of the window, tap “Home.” Then tap “Replace” in the “Editing” section of the toolbar.
2. Tap the "Replace" button under the "Home" tab of Word. In the section of “Find and Replace” window that is opened, just tap the “Find what” box that you see. In the box displayed, type:
^g
(Alternately, you can tap on the “More” button, and then you choose “Special” and “Graphic” from the menu. Word will then insert a “^g” for you.)
3. In this case the, “^g” is a special code that simply means “graphic.” This “graphic” tag includes all the images, charts, or even the graphs that is in your document. But you do not have worry, you can undo this step later in the nearest future if you remove something by mistake.
4. Next, tap the “Replace All” button at the bottom of the window. Tap "Replace All" in the Microsoft Word and then "Find and Replace" window.
5. All the images that is in your document will be removed. If you desire to bring back all the images, just press Ctrl+Z on Windows or you press the Command+Z on Mac to undo the removal process. Or, you can also insert images again if need be. This is very handy!
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