Unable to past a picture from Safari

[fawaz]

Hi
When I copy a picture from safari and past it on Power point 2008 I get the web address pasted but not the photo ??

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

I see the same problem in Word and Excel.

Please let Microsoft know about this. Here¹s the URL to tell them:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/suggestions.mspx?product=powerpoint

Thanks.

-Jim

Hi
When I copy a picture from safari and past it on Power point 2008 I get the
web address pasted but not the photo ??

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[peterthebag]

Hi,
If you need a work around for this problem if you presss command +
shift + 4 your cursor turns into a cross -hair. You can use it to
capture the image you want - it is placed on your desktop. You can
insert it into powerpoint from there.

PtB

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi
When I copy a picture from safari and past it on Power point 2008 I get
the web address pasted but not the photo ??

Try Paste Special ... does it give you the opportunity to choose an image
rather than the link?

Or use the browser's Save Image option to save the image to a convenient
location, then use PPT's Insert, Picture, From File to bring it into PPT.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[fawaz]

Thank you
Is this a temporary solution or it is going to be always like that, multiple steps to to do what should be a 2 steps function?

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Try Paste Special ... does it give you the opportunity to choose an image
rather than the link?

Or use the browser's Save Image option to save the image to a convenient
location, then use PPT's Insert, Picture, From File to bring it into PPT.


================================================
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Hi Steve,

If the picture is in layers then Safari only puts the top layer onto the
clip board and paste special does paste that part.

If the picture is all in one layer then paste special works.

-Jim

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Thank you
Is this a temporary solution or it is going to be always like
that, multiple steps to to do what should be a 2 steps function?

Impossible to say. We're volunteers here, not MS employees so we don't know
what may change or when.

Besides, when you're dealing with several different applications, what one is
able to paste will always depend on what the other puts on the clipboard when
you copy. See Jim's reply for more on this.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Steve,

If the picture is in layers then Safari only puts the top layer onto the
clip board and paste special does paste that part.

If the picture is all in one layer then paste special works.

Can you point me to an example of a picture in layers on a web site?
I'm having trouble wrapping my wee little mind around that one.

Or do you mean something like a web site with layered content where what
appears to be a single picture is actually several, layered up?


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[Jim Gordon MVP]

Quoting from "Steve Rindsberg" <[email protected]>, in article
(e-mail address removed), on [DATE:

Can you point me to an example of a picture in layers on a web site?
I'm having trouble wrapping my wee little mind around that one.

Hi,

Go to this URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/productrefund/refund.mspx

In the left frame there's a picture of a guy with a laptop sitting on the
floor with the text "Preview Tomorrow's Technology Today." If you copy the
picture the guy sitting doesn't get copied to the clipboard, but the blue
translucent layer with the text does get copied.

Office 2008 is giving that URL some use that it never got before.

-Jim

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,

Go to this URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/productrefund/refund.mspx

In the left frame there's a picture of a guy with a laptop sitting on the
floor with the text "Preview Tomorrow's Technology Today." If you copy the
picture the guy sitting doesn't get copied to the clipboard, but the blue
translucent layer with the text does get copied.

Office 2008 is giving that URL some use that it never got before.

Not sure if it's peculiar to Office 2008. I'm getting weirdness here in 2003
on da Winbox too. Copy/paste and get the url.

But:

Here's where the image, an animated GIF, lives:
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/images/about/innovation_120x240_v04.gif

Open that, rightclick, save image and then drag/drop the saved image into PPT
or Insert, Picture, From File and get the blue transparent layer.

But that's only because you're seeing just the first frame of a three-frame
animated GIF ... start the slide in slideshow mode and you see the same cycle
of images as on the web page.

Copy/Paste to PPT 2004 gives me the guy and text and such, but the image isn't
animated. Rightclick, Download Image to Disk, then Insert, Picture, From File
(the saved image) does give me the animated GIF (but only shows the b/g and
text, no guy, in edit mode).

Are we having an Excedrin moment yet? ;-)


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[Jim Gordon MVP]

Quoting from "Steve Rindsberg" <[email protected]>, in article
(e-mail address removed), on [DATE:

Are we having an Excedrin moment yet? ;-)

I'm sure not liking it.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
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[grant camden]

In PPt 2004 (test drive), I could drag and drop images directly from Safari onto my Powerpoint workspace. Now I just get the URL. I can drag to the desktop, drop, and then drag to PPt and it works, but what a pain. This sure is slowing me down.

Any word on a fix yet?