I'm trying to find a way to flatten images in a MS Word 2007 document. I want the images that have text/labels placed/layered on top of them to be merged into a single image. Are there any tools or AddIns for Word that can do this? With a 100+ page document I'm trying to avoid a manual process... I can't believe Word doesn't have a feature or option hidden somewhere that can do this out of the box.

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I think manual is your only choice. – Rhys Gibson Apr 12 '11 at 3:46
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word does not have such an option afaik. you can try printing the whole document into pdf files or office onenote, this will flatten the images and you can re-use it also.

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You can use Nxpowerlite to reduce the size of the file .. this helps in flattening the images in the document

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How does it do that exactly? Does it compress the file by doing so, and when you open it, the images are just flattened? – slhck Nov 30 '11 at 11:46
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There is no native way to do this (e.g. native to Word). You could either print to PDF, or maybe XPS, for a workaround (you might be able to export to PDF and then back into Word). (I've been with word since 2000 and have never seen such a "flattening" feature.)

What do you need the images flattened for? Perhaps there is another, better workaround.

(I answer regardless of elapsed time :P)

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