Extract images from Word files

A few days back I was in need to copy an image from a MS-Word document so that I can add it somewhere else. I thought that I would be able to copy/paste the image in ctrl+c/ctrl+v way, but it didn't worked. So I tried a rather unorthodox way. Steps I took are as below:

• Saved my .doc file as .docx file
• Changed the extension to .rar
• Extract this .rar file
• I got folder hierarchy as below

This folder hierarchy was made by extracting the rar file. Here you could see the media folder selected. Here you can find all the images in the word document. Thats it.

This trick also works for open office files.