Does My Word Document Contain Color Images?

If your Microsoft Word document contains one or more images which you do not want printed in color, you must convert them to grayscale before inserting them into the document and uploading, otherwise color printing charges may apply to your order. Here's how to tell if images in a Word document (Word 97 or later) are true grayscale or if they are really color but are being displayed in grayscale.
First, open your document with Word. The sample to the right shows 2 images, one in color and one in grayscale:
To display a color image in grayscale, click the image, then click 'Format' on the menu bar, then click 'Picture...'.
On the 'Format Picture' screen, Select Grayscale under the 'Image Control, Color' option, then click 'OK':
The image will be displayed in grayscale. Although both of these images appear to be identical, they are really not. The image to the left is a color image which is being displayed in grayscale. The image to the right is a true grayscale image and cannot be displayed in color.
To prove this, we will repeat the process we did for the left image, by clicking the image on the right to select it, clicking 'Format', then 'Picture...', then clicking 'Automatic' under 'Image Control, Color', then 'OK'. The image still appears as grayscale on the screen:
Repeating this same process for the image on the left, the left image again appears in color, proving that it was not saved as a true grayscale image:

In the above example, a page in your document containing the image on the left would be treated as if it contained a color image regardless of how it was being displayed on your screen because it was not saved as a true grayscale image. The image on the right was saved as a true grayscale image, so could be used accordingly in your document. Please note that if you mix color and true grayscale images on the same page in a document, the page will be processed as a color page.
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