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Fix Picture is Blurry When Inserted to Word Document Problem

Roy Ulerio
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If you found that image quality is slightly blurry when inserted to Word document and want to improve image clarity in Word, follow this guide, it describes 2 easy ways to make insert pictures to word document without losing its resolution quality.


Option 1: Set Default Image Resolution to High Fidelity

By default, this is set for print (220 ppi), but you can change these settings. To set the default resolution to high fidelity in Word 2016, here's how:

Step 1: In Word, go to File, click on Options > Advanced.

Step 2: Under Image Size and Quality, select High fidelity in the Default resolution list.

Step 3: Select the Do not compress images in file check box.

Set default resolution to high fidelity

Option 2: Make Word displays the image at 100% original size

If an image is pasted from other programs, it will "shrink to fit" images to fit in Word window or frame. It's recommended to use Insert > Picture instead of pasting it into a document.

Insert pictures

To make Word displays the image at 100% original size. Here's how:

Step 1: Right-click on the image and select Size and Position.

Size and position settings

Step 2: On the Size tab, verify that Scale is set to 100%.

Step 3: Make sure Relative to original picture size box is checked.

Display orginal picture size