drag and drop to/from MacJournal

[ritapage]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I used to be able to do this but now cannot. Had an unrelated problem which caused me to repair hard drive, to reload word programs, and update them - I have both 2004 and 2008 and neither give me this functionality any more - it is sorely missed. I used to be able to work on a .doc or .docx on my desktop and drag it back and forth into Macjournal as needed. Hope I just have a wrong box checked somewhere. I am still able to do this with Excel, btw. Much obliged for any help. Rita

 

[CyberTaz]

The operation of dragging files from/to anywhere is not controlled in any
way by the program that created the files -- Word or otherwise. That is a
function of the OS & the browser you're using as well as the site youre
dragging to.

 

[ritapage]

Thank you. Since I can still drag pfd. and excel and powerpoint, but not word doc/docx, do you have any idea what I might do to fix this? Much obliged, Rita

The operation of dragging files from/to anywhere is not controlled in any

 

[John McGhie]

Make sure you have extensions on the file names. Without file name
extensions, the receiving software has no idea what the file contains and
can guess wrongly...

I have a sneaking suspicion that one particular browser is doing something
strange to the file name extensions (like removing them...) if you have a
different browser, try that...

Cheers

The operation of dragging files from/to anywhere is not controlled in any

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