Clipping files in Word 2004

[slicko]

In Word 98, you could highlight text and drag it to the desktop, where the
clipping file helpfully renamed itself with the first few words of the
text, for easy identification when you wanted to put it back into your
document.

In Word 2004, when I try this, the clippings are all automatically named
"Picture clipping.pictClipping", so I have to rename them individually. Is
there a setting somewhere that will make them name themselves the way Word
98 did?

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi slicko-

I'm interested in finding the answer to this, myself, but am working
from a different angle. It may be more of a Mac OS X issue than a Word
issue.

Keep in touch |:>)

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi slicko-

Played around a little & found that Word & Excel are the guilty parties!

If you drag content from other files the clippings still get named the old
way. Try it with text in an email or some such. I use Entourage and tried
dragging a message from the newsgroup list as well as content from Apple
Discussions in Safari with no problem. Content from Excel & Word use the
"Picture clipping" names.

Now if we can only find out how to fix it |:>)


On 3/9/05 9:41 AM, in article

In Word 98, you could highlight text and drag it to the desktop, where the
clipping file helpfully renamed itself with the first few words of the
text, for easy identification when you wanted to put it back into your
document.

In Word 2004, when I try this, the clippings are all automatically named
"Picture clipping.pictClipping", so I have to rename them individually. Is
there a setting somewhere that will make them name themselves the way Word
98 did?

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