I have created a flyer with images in Word 2016 that I would like to copy and paste into a gmail – not as an attachment. I have tried it two ways – just copying/pasting the word doc and also converting the word doc to a web page but the images do not appear. Why is this so difficult to do. Can someone give me a step by step instruction on how to do this simple task, please.
Gmail – Copying/Pasting a word doc with images into a gmail
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To update things for the new (as of April 2013) Gmail interface:
You have a few options:
Drag the image from Finder/Explorer and drop it directly into your message.
Mouse over the
+sign at the bottom of the message, which brings up an "Insert" menu with a few options for photo sources. Select the camera icon, then browse to find the file on your computer.Use yifei's suggestion of switching back to the old compose method (This is likely just a transitional option, so it could be removed at any time.)
You can download and convert a Google Docs to a MS Office Word Document.
Click the arrow on the Actions link for the file you want to convert and select Download... (Note the ellipsis)
The following Convert and Download window will appear, select the Microsoft Word option
Best Answer
Try uploading the Word doc to Google drive, and then editing it there so it turns into a Docs file.
Then copy and paste from that.
(In general, copy and paste from Microsoft products to browser-based products doesn't work so well: Microsoft has all sorts of special characters in their content which you cannot see but which can mess with what you paste.)