How do you make a color image black and white

I looked at the Adjust Image tool, but I could not see an easy way to make the color picture turn into black and white.
Yes I realize I could go back into iPhoto and do that. I don't want to do that.
In Word there is an image control that allows you to do various things with the image, including going to grayscale.

Thanks Walt. That indeed was easy. I had tride saturation before, but didn't get all the way left, so it just looked washed out. I decided, wrongly it appears, that it would not do as I needed. Thank you. I just wish something like that could have been in the help file or PDF.
I think once I get the hang of the nuances, this program will really rock. Its just taking longer than I anticipated. I mean, it is an Apple program---so I was counting on a lot more intuitive steps.

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