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For Mac users FileJuicer is also a good way at getting at any images included in Word (and other file types) and is quicker. You just dump the Word file on the FileJuicer window and it 'juices' it, creating a folder with sub-folders containing any content it finds grouped by file format. You can dump multiple files on FileJuicer at the same time too. Most of the time you'll get the image added to Word in full resolution and vector files are usually found as emf/wmf, which you can open in illustrator. Occasionally it gives you a png rather than a jpg, but that may have been the original embedded file format too.

What it can't find is drawings made with the drawing tools in Word (for that you have to make a PDF and open that page in illustrator) but they invariably need redrawing from scratch anyway.