How to export a figure into MS Word?

If I have 8 figures opened in Matlab. How can I export these figures into an MS Word document?

[KSSV]

Save them as .jpeg, or .png ang export to word.

Read Saveas.

[Sadiq Akbar]

Thank you very much KSSV for your prompt response. Yes, I usually do like that. But can we export that by a matlab program just like we can export data to an excel file using xlswrite() command?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

See attached demo. Works with Windows only.

[Alex Morgan]

Works great for pasting into word, thanks.

Unfortunately I am still getting low quality images from imread compared to manually pasting into word, is there any way around this? Am using .png format, maybe a different one is better?

EDIT: Used the 2nd paste option (the Word.Selection.InlineShapes.AddPicture() method) and that fixed my image quality, thanks again

Answer 2

[Ameer Hamza]

The easiest way is to create a live script, create figures inside it, and export it as a word document from the save menu. However, this approach gives less control over how the figures will appear in the word document.

One of the proper approaches is to use MATLAB report generator and add images to the MS word document. Following links shows some example,

https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/create-a-landscape-report.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/mlreportgen.dom.image-class.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/examples.html?s_tid=CRUX_topnav

Another approach might be to use the ActiveX server, but it will only work on MS Windows: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/94937-how-can-i-automatically-export-an-image-to-a-microsoft-word-file-without-using-the-publish-function

[Sadiq Akbar]

Thank you very much Ameer Hamza for your help. I visited the links, but these are too technical for me. I think the method that I usually use and also mentioned by KSSV is more easy and suitable. So I will continue that. Thank to you both for your support and help.

[Ameer Hamza]

I agree; this is a bit more complicated as compared to writing to excel file. I guess the live script approach is a bit easy, but I agree, exporting to images and pasting them is word file seems to be a good approach.

[Alex Morgan]

Unfortunately it seems there is an issue with exporting to live scripts. Could try exporting to a LaTex file. Some links on both of these below

How to include an image with original resolution in a Live Script? - (mathworks.com)

Using Matlab to create a LaTex document (for image import) - (mathworks.com)