 Today, I'm going to show you a very simple trick in Microsoft Word that allows you to convert images or scan documents into Microsoft Word documents with a few clicks. On my desktop, I have a folder with two files in it. The first is an image file, as you can see, it's a JPG file. And the second is a PDF document. And if I open the document, I can see that it is a scan document. I'm going to show you how to convert both these documents into Word files. Let's first start with the image file. I'll start by launching Word and create a blank document. To convert the image file into a Word document, I will have to do two steps. The first step is to load the image file into the Word document and I can do that by clicking Insert Pictures and then choose this device and go to the folder and this is the image file, Insert. I can resize it to be as big as possible but this should be enough. Let me save this document as a PDF document. Click File, Save As and choose the Browse option to go to your folder and choose the option PDF. Then let me give it a name, Speech1 and click on the Save button. The Word document itself can now be discarded. I don't need to save it and if I go back to my folder, I have a file here called Speech1PDF. The next step is to open Word again and this time, instead of creating a blank document, I will click on the Open button, choose Browse and navigate to my folder and open the PDF file. You will get an alert from Word saying that Word will now convert your PDF into an editable Word document. This may take a while so let's click OK and there you have it. The entire image file has been converted into Word document and all the text in the document can now be edited. So instead of four, I want to make it five. If I want to change the font and we have an editable Word document. Click on Save, navigate to your folder and say Speech1 document. Now when we go to our folder, we can see that we had our original image file which was converted into a PDF file and subsequently that PDF file was automatically converted by Word into an editable Word document. We can apply the same technique to convert scanned PDF files also. The process is much simpler. Open Microsoft Word. Click on the Open button, browse, navigate to your folder and this is the scanned PDF file that I want to convert into an editable Word document. Click Open and again the same warning message will come. Click OK and once again the scanned document has now become an editable document. Once again I can change the format, I can change the text and save as a normal Word document. When we go to our folder, we can see that the scanned PDF file has been converted into a normal Word document. So there you have it. A very simple way to convert images or scanned documents into editable Microsoft Word documents. The quality of conversion will depend upon how clear the image or the scanned document was. If you could read it clearly, there is a very high chance that Microsoft Word will convert it without any problems. So next time you receive an attachment that is an image or a scanned document and you want to edit it, you know what to do.