How to copy & Paste a web page

[Jay]

Word X on Mac G4

I want to copy & paste a web page from IE/Mozilla to Word X. I can only copy
text but no image/table. If I use Word on PC, I can copy an entire web page
by choosing "select all" & "copy" on a browser, then "paste" on Word.

How can I copy from a browser and paste a web page onto Word without losing
images, table, and font styles?

 

[John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]]

Hi Jay:

Use a different browser (and don't expect miracles...)

Each application advises the system which formats it can put on the clip
board. Each application advises the system which formats it can accept.
The system performs the PASTE in the richest format supported by both.

The more modern and capable the browser (FireFox is good...) the more
information it can supply. The more modern your copy of Word (Word X is
very limited in its capabilities) the more information you will get to keep.

The next version of Word will be far more capable in this regard, because
its native format is the same as many websites.

Hope this helps

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[Jay]

Thanks John!

Hi Jay:

Use a different browser (and don't expect miracles...)

Each application advises the system which formats it can put on the clip
board. Each application advises the system which formats it can accept.
The system performs the PASTE in the richest format supported by both.

The more modern and capable the browser (FireFox is good...) the more
information it can supply. The more modern your copy of Word (Word X is
very limited in its capabilities) the more information you will get to keep.

The next version of Word will be far more capable in this regard, because
its native format is the same as many websites.

Hope this helps

--

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Jay,

I'm not sure which aspects of the web page are most important to you, but
there's a feature that Word has that might (not most of the time but
sometimes) work for you.

View > Toolbars > Web. Click the "Open Web Page" button and paste the URL of
the web page into the box, then click the OK button.

This feature was designed to reproduce web pages created by Word, and it's
not supposed to be like a regular web browser. Just the same it might help
you and might be worth a try. It can be very slow on a large page, and it
might crash Word if the page is really complicated, so don't be unhappy if
it doesn't work. You can copy and paste the desired elements into a
different Word document.

If it's table information you want, try viewing the web page source in your
browser. Copy and paste the HTML into Excel. Excel does an excellent job of
rendering HTML tables, which you can then copy to Word.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

Word X on Mac G4

I want to copy & paste a web page from IE/Mozilla to Word X. I can only copy
text but no image/table. If I use Word on PC, I can copy an entire web page
by choosing "select all" & "copy" on a browser, then "paste" on Word.

How can I copy from a browser and paste a web page onto Word without losing
images, table, and font styles?

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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