Pastes LINKS and NOT images

[joannayeh]

Everytime I copy and image from the web to my clipboard and paste it to
WORD or POWERPOINT, it just pastes the LINK and not the image...

My computer didn't used to do this before but it started to do this all
of a sudden.

Can anyone help?

 

[matt neuburg]

Everytime I copy and image from the web to my clipboard and paste it to
WORD or POWERPOINT, it just pastes the LINK and not the image...

There is no such thing as copying "from the web". You must be copying
out of some particular application, such as Safari. What application?
What version? What system? And how are you performing the "copy" in the
first place? The behavior of Safari has changed in recent versions so
these are important questions. Another thing to check is to see whether
pasting into a different program, such as TextEdit, is any different. If
not, this would not be a Word matter at all... m.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Good question, but it has nothing to do with Word or PPT. I could reproduce
the issue in those applications, but I got the same result in non-Office
apps as well, like AppleWorks. I'd guess it's a bug in Safari (you are
using Safari, right?), and you ought to ask your question on an Apple forum.

As a workaround, you can always drag the image directly from Safari into a
Word doc and it will show up fine.

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[Jeff Wiseman]

Everytime I copy and image from the web to my clipboard and paste it to
WORD or POWERPOINT, it just pastes the LINK and not the image...

My computer didn't used to do this before but it started to do this all
of a sudden.

Can anyone help?

I believe that the problem is that there is a link on the
clipboard and not an image. It has nothing to do with WORD or
POWERPOINT.

If I drag and drop an image from a web page onto my desktop,
sometimes I'll get an image and sometimes I'll get a link. It
seems to depend on the web page itself as to what exactly you get
when you drag what you think is an image from it.

I'm not familiar enough with web page configurations, but I have
seen this happen on several occasions, I just didn't pay that
much attention to it. It seems that if the actual web page
content is a link of some type instead of an embedded image, only
the link is copied when you drag and drop it.

Someone more familiar with HTML could probably describe this
better (and provide a way around it).