Help! Mac Pictures

[Mary]

I switched to Mac recently and have been really happy...except that on
my PC when I was creating a report I could just find a picture I wanted
on the internet (i.e. through Google images) and cut and paste it into
the document. That document could be emailed out, posted on a document
exchange site, or saved to a jump drive and opened on another computer
and the picture would stay put. Now when I create a report on Word for
Mac it doesn't want to cut and paste pictures from Google images...so I
drag and drop them into the document and they show up beautifully! But
if I email out that document, post it online, or save it to a jump
drive and try to open it on another computer the picture is replaced
with an empty box with a weird symbol in it and it says something about
a compressor or something needed.

I am in an educational program that is based around the exchange of
information documents between students so this problem is seriously
impairing my life and productivity. I would appreciate any help anyone
could give me!

-Mary

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi Mary,

there are some problems related to dragging content from Safari into Word.
Instead, simply drag an image from Safari onto the desktop, where it will be
saved as an autonomous file, then drag that file into Word. Word should now
save the document as expected, and you can delete the file from your
desktop.

Note that this is a general comment; there are certain image files which
Word cannot deal with, but such files are unlikely to show up during a
Google image search.

I switched to Mac recently and have been really happy...except that on
my PC when I was creating a report I could just find a picture I wanted
on the internet (i.e. through Google images) and cut and paste it into
the document. That document could be emailed out, posted on a document
exchange site, or saved to a jump drive and opened on another computer
and the picture would stay put. Now when I create a report on Word for
Mac it doesn't want to cut and paste pictures from Google images...so I
drag and drop them into the document and they show up beautifully! But
if I email out that document, post it online, or save it to a jump
drive and try to open it on another computer the picture is replaced
with an empty box with a weird symbol in it and it says something about
a compressor or something needed.

I am in an educational program that is based around the exchange of
information documents between students so this problem is seriously
impairing my life and productivity. I would appreciate any help anyone
could give me!

-Mary

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I switched to Mac recently and have been really happy...except that on
my PC when I was creating a report I could just find a picture I wanted
on the internet (i.e. through Google images) and cut and paste it into
the document. That document could be emailed out, posted on a document
exchange site, or saved to a jump drive and opened on another computer
and the picture would stay put. Now when I create a report on Word for
Mac it doesn't want to cut and paste pictures from Google images...so I
drag and drop them into the document and they show up beautifully! But
if I email out that document, post it online, or save it to a jump drive
and try to open it on another computer the picture is replaced with an
empty box with a weird symbol in it and it says something about a
compressor or something needed.

I see... the "compressor" warning is because the image is copied as PICT
in the clipboard. PICT is a QuickTiem format and the WIndows version of
Word can't read it.

The safest way to go is to drag the images to a folderin the FInder and
from there you drag them back to the Word document.
Drag and drop to the Finder downloads the pictures in their original
format there so there is no more compatibility problems inserting them
in Word afterwards.

Corentin

 

[Mary]

Thank you very much! That is a big relief!

-Mary