Problem converting Word images into Photoshop.

This is a perplexing one for me:

I've received a Word document.  In this Word document are several images
that have been embedded/inserted.  The actual graphics files themselves have
been destroyed or lost, so all I have to help
this person out with is what was saved in the Word document.

I figured I could simply copy and paste these images from Word into
PhotoShop, but when I do so, the images come out terrible, almost as if much
of their rich colors have been stripped away, giving them a grainy look.

My next idea was to open the Word document, center the image on my screen,
then do a screen shot, paste the screenshot into PhotoShop, copy the image
inside the screenshot, then paste that image back in PhotoShop.  The result
is a much richer and true rendering of the original graphic.  However, I was
told that this will produce poor print outs because the screen capture
option only captures images at 72 DPI.

If that's true, does anyone know of a better way to retrieve the images
embedded in a word document and save them as close to their original
resolution as possible?

Thanks,
Mike

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