Paste as HTML?

[Cvilledave]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Do the Mac Office products support the "paste as HTML" function that the Windows Office products have? I thought I remembered that function being available but I can no longer find it in any of the Mac products. Am I just imagining that it was there at one point?

 

[CyberTaz]

Yes, they support the capability. The question is whether what you copy from
puts the HTML option on the clipboard. If it's available Edit> Paste Special
will display it as one of the "Paste As:" options.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Cvilledave]

Interesting. Since upgrading to the latest releases I no longer see the "Paste as HTML" option under Paste Special.

Using the Windows version of Office I can create two test documents, then I can take a table from a Word doc and paste it into a Powerpoint file as HTML. Using the same test files, if I try to do the same thing with Mac Office the option isn't there.

Could something else be messing with my clipboard that would prevent the Paste as HTML option from working? Can someone verify these functions still exist in the latest updates to Mac Office 2003 and 2008?

 

[Cvilledave]

Sorry ... I meant Mac Office 2004 instead of 2003.

 

[John McGhie]

The "Paste as HTML" function is the very badly misnamed ordinary "Paste"
function. It's the "normal, default" pasting method.

It's still there in Word 2008 -- "HTML format". As others have noted, it
won't be offered of the source of the paste does not produce XML data (e.g.
a plain text file).

Which is a stupid name: the format is actually "XML" and XML is of course
much richer than HTML. If Word really did paste in HTML, we would be losing
all manner of data on every paste. I do wish they would re-name it and save
all the confusion.

Word's default pasting format used to be RTF. No longer. RTF cannot
contain all the things a modern Word document can.

Cheers

Sorry ... I meant Mac Office 2004 instead of 2003.

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[Cvilledave]

Thanks for the reply, but this just seems broken to me. If I try to copy a table from Mac Officd 2008 Word to Powerpoint there's no way to paste it where it looks like the original table and is editable. I could swear I used to be able to do this by Paste Special --> Paste as HTML, but that option no longer appears when trying to copy between Mac Office applications. Maybe I'll downgrade this weekend to an older version of Mac Office 2008, but I could swear the function used to be there and is not there anymore. Is there anyone who can verify this?

 

[John McGhie]

Yes, I can verify it... You are correct: it is just "Broken".

If you simply "Paste", it pastes as a "Word Document Object" which is
read-only in PowerPoint.

If you then double-click that object (and wait...) Word will start and
display the object as a table for you. You can then edit it.

If you then close Word, the object will be saved back to PowerPoint as a
Word Document Object, replacing the original, and again become read-only in
PowerPoint.

Pasting as anything else doesn't seem to work.

I wouldn't attempt a downgrade: that can get pretty ugly You are likely
to end up with a fully-broken Office installation.

Cheers

Thanks for the reply, but this just seems broken to me. If I try to copy a
table from Mac Officd 2008 Word to Powerpoint there's no way to paste it where
it looks like the original table and is editable. I could swear I used to be
able to do this by Paste Special --> Paste as HTML, but that option no longer
appears when trying to copy between Mac Office applications. Maybe I'll
downgrade this weekend to an older version of Mac Office 2008, but I could
swear the function used to be there and is not there anymore. Is there anyone
who can verify this?

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

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]