How to Copy a HP Scan to Word for Editing
- 1). Open the HP scanner's lid. Place the document you would like to scan on the scanner, print-side down on the glass.
- 2). Press the "Scan" button on the scanner's front panel. The HP scanner control program will open.
- 3). Click on the down arrow on the box under the heading "Where do you want the scan to go?"
Select "MS Word." - 4). Click on the icon next to "To output type." The "Change output type" dialog box will open.
- 5). Click on "Text" under the heading "Choose the output type of the scan."
- 6). Click "OK."
- 7). Click "Send the scan now." Your HP scanner will scan the document and send it to Word.
- 8). Click "Done" if scanning a document that only contains one page. If scanning a multiple page document, remove the scanned document and place the next page to be scanned under the scanner's lid. Click "Scan." Repeat until each page of the multiple-page document is scanned.
- 9). Edit the document in Word.
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