: How to export logo to be used in Word I have finished my artwork in Illustrator. It is a logo for my company. It is a horizontal rectangle. I am ready for exporting it so I can use it

@Jennifer810

My favorite way to get a letterhead into Word is to import it as a WMF file. It is vector, so it makes for small sizes and always prints clearly. There's some tricks to this approach though.


First design it all in Illustrator, on an A4-sized page.
Make sure all your artwork is in RGB
Convert any text that you want to include to outlines (address + whatever you want to have as an image in Word)
Put a white rectangle behind the whole letterhead, starting in the top left corner. Make sure it's the full page width (21cm) and as many cm as you need to surround all your items.
Delete any other items on the page.
Select all. Scale 500%. Artboard size doesn't matter.
File › Export As… Then select Windows Metafile (WMF)


Then in Word:


Drag the .wmf file into Word header.
Use the menu Format › Format Picture › Size. Set Scale to 20%
Format Picture › Layout. Set it to Behind text.
Format Picture › Layout › Advanced. Position it 0 from Right of Page and 0 from Top of Page


Although that's a few steps in Word, it comes out perfectly without having to fidget with placement in Word. And if you need to update your header, it's easy to replace.

Now: why the 500% scale? Because the WMF file format is horrible. It will break bezier curves up into small, straight sections. But by enlarging it, and then reducing to 20% in Word, these aberrations become practically invisible, especially when printing.

Let me know how it goes!

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@Turnbaugh909

Microsoft applications really prefer RGB files.

Customarily I save/export as a PNG24 at fairly large dimensions (wxh) for Word. Then reduce to desired size within Word.

You can try exporting a WMF, or even saving as an EPS from Illustrator. But in my experience, these formats all cause issues eventually even though Microsoft states they are supported formats. I would never really expect a PDF to be usable for Word.

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