Adobe Illustrator lets you create graphic design projects containing drawings, text and custom effects. The program has a feature that can directly save your Illustrator project as a PNG image which you can use in various Microsoft Office programs. Transferring your image to Word allows you to use the item in a new or existing Word document, and Word includes some built-in options you can use to align the image and format it to fit in your document properly.
Launch Adobe Illustrator. Open the project you want to convert for use in Word. Make any final changes before you proceed to convert the document.
Click "File" and select "Save for Microsoft Office." Type a file name and select a location for the converted Illustrator document. Click "Save."
Open Microsoft Word. Open an existing Word document if necessary, or create a new one to insert the Illustrator image. Click the location in the document where you want to place the image.
Click the "Insert" tab on Word's Ribbon and click "Picture." Select your converted Illustrator file and press "Enter." Word automatically inserts the file into the document. If you need to change the image's size, click and drag the resizing handles inward to make the image smaller or outward to make it larger. To change the image's position, click "Position" on the Ribbon and select one of the graphical layout options shown on the drop-down list.
- Clicking your image in Microsoft Word brings up a group of formatting options on the Ribbon. You can use these tools to add borders to the image, crop it, add artistic effects and change how it's arranged in the Word document.
- You may also export the image in the PDF or JPEG image formats that Word supports by selecting "Export" from the "File" menu. The process for placing the image in your Word document remains the same.