Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / August 2006

Hello Alan,

This works best for me:

1.  Drag graphic from web page to a folder in the Finder.

2.  With your insertion point where you want the graphic to appear in the
Word document, choose Insert menu => Picture => From file => navigate to the
folder you put the graphic in.

There are some advantages in doing it this way; unfortunately I've just been
called away and have to break off!

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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On 29/8/06 9:32 AM, in article
1156807925.197379.243330@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com,

It works fine on other macs?  Really?

I've forgotten the very long previous discussion that we had about this, but
the bottom line is that it isn't as simple as you would think.  A macro
might work in OS 10.3 Safari but for OS 10.4 Safari, you'll need some sort
of workaround.  Clive offered one, switching browsers might be another....

This has something to do with what Safari puts on the clipboard, I think,
and that changed from Safari 1 (OS 10.3) to Safari 2 (OS 10.4).  I'm
guessing those other macs don't have the same setup you do, but if they
*are* running the same browser and version numbers, let us know, as it would
be nice to have a solution for this.  And what browser and OS (with version
numbers) are you using?

I think Firefox *might* behave differently, and might let you paste with a
simple cmd-v. Or maybe try other browsers--if you control-click on the
image, some browsers give a Copy Image and Copy Image Address option, you
might need to go that route.

Pasting into a different program (maybe TextEdit?) might also be a
workaround.

In general, Office doesn't let you switch default paste settings, though it
would be nice in a number of contexts.