Pasting Images Annoyance - suggestions?

[Skookum]

As a relatively new Mac user - generally very pleased with the switch
from PCs by the way - I do find one small irritant when I go to paste
images into an office application (usually Word). The default appears
to be that when I paste something that I've copied from a web source,
it pastes the URL not the actual image. To get around this, I have to
use "Paste Special" and select "picture" instead of "unformatted text".
Does anyone know whether this can be changed so that the default is to
paste the picture (unless otherwise instructed) instead of that web
address?

 

[mmmmark]

Are you using Safari? It think it might be the behavior of Safari that is
different than IE. I think you can drag an image right out of Safari and
into Word, but it is hard to change the behavior that we've become
accustomed to.

What if you right-click (CTRL-click) on the image. What do you pick in the
menu? What options are there? I believe Safari changed some of these
contextual menus since early versions. (I'm not at a Mac right now, so I
can't verify this). Is Copy Image one of them? Does this still give a URL?

 

[Priyanka Singhal [MSFT]]

Safari generates "rtfd" data on copy .That is a specific clipboard flavor
that Office apps do not understand. So word uses regular RTF when you paste
from Safari and that does not contain binary image data. So the workaround
is the one you are using is correct . "paste special" gives you a choice of
formats or clipboard flavors that can be used.

Thanks,

Priyanka

 

[Skookum]

yes, I'm "on safari" First, I'd never thought of just drag and drop
from Safari to Word and it works well. A very small bit of window
resizing is needed to do it but it's a quicker operation than having to
deal with "paste special".

I had been using right-click - the options there include copy image
which is the routine that gives me the URL ratehr than image. The other
options are less relevant (e.g. "open link in new window, save image to
desktop etc.) . I'll see if I can aaacclimatize to the drag and drop,
thanks.

 

[Skookum]

Thanks for the technical insights, Priyanka. I had been thinking of
this as a problem with Office not Safari, and you and "mmmmark" have
cleared that up nicely.