How you're supposed to insert full-sized figures in a report:

1. Set up layouts with appropriately sized paper with proper figure borders, title, scale, etc.


2. Publish layouts as PDF.


3. Save report as PDF


4. Insert figures into report using Acrobat / Foxit Reader / whatever.

Advantages:

• Consistent figure scale


• No fiddling with screenshots

Disadvantages:

• Can be tricky to set up layouts so that the captions / page numbers match format, references, and table of contents in Word.

How I am doing it:

1. Be to lazy to set up proper figure layouts


2. Publish layouts as PDF


3. Rotate all the figure PDFs to be landscape to get maximum pixels without stitching images together in paint, and take screenshots.


4. Crop screenshots in paint and rotate back to original orientation.


5. Paste screenshots into word document.


6. Save report as PDF.

Advantages:

• Can see what report will look like before publishing as PDF - better interim appearance.


• Easier to match captions and references (well, as much as it can be in Word.)

Disadvantages:

• Screenshots can be tricky


• My laptop has a screen of low resolution, so my final images end up being about 600x1000 on an 8.5x11 sheet (with 1" margins - about 100 DPI)

:/