Microsoft to Macromedia

I had some pictures and wanted to send tiff files to a publisher. I created the pictures using Microsoft Office products (PowerPoint and Excel, predominantly). I had trouble converting those images to tiff files directly from PowerPoint or Excel. So, I followed the following steps:

1. Open Macromedia Fireworks
2. Copy the object from the Microsoft Office application
3. Create a new document in Macromedia Fireworks
4. Choose appropriate canvas color in the new document window
5. Now paste the object into Macromedia Fireworks
6. Change the image size or resolution by clicking on image size button
7. Open Export Wizard (File-> Export Wizard)
8. Choose appropriate purpose and finally the tiff file is created