Pages Crashing during Copy & Paste from Word

My first thought is there is something odd/corrupt in the text you're trying to paste. Possibly the easiest thing to try is Edit > Paste and Match Style. This will make the pasted text take on the characteristics/style set in the Pages document. Assuming the Pages document isn't using a corrupt font, this should work.

Have you tried opening the Word document in Pages or TextEdit & then copying the text from there? If this doesn't work, perhaps whoever created the Word file could save it as plain text or RTF & send that to you.

I'm having the same issue with Word 2004 pasting text to Pages. I also cannot open Word documents from Pages.

I tried the "paste and match style" and it still crashes. It gives me the "Pages quit unexpectedly while using the SF compatiblity plug-in." Pasting from other apps seems to work fine. Pasting from Word into KN or Numbers is also fine.

This has been happening since I had to reinstall system with new HD and then I transferred Office '04 over to this harddrive manually without the install cd's. Could that be part of the problem?

You need to upgrade your system to OSX 10.6.4 using the Combo updater downloadable from Apple's support downloads.

The Software Update version of the updater has caused all sorts of problems of which this is just one. Most are caused by faulty fonts.

Peter

Ok, so here's a weird thing. Had the same crash everyone else reports - pasting from a Word document into Pages 09 everything went well until I hit a particular paragraph that kept crashing my Pages doc. I copied the thing to TextEdit, removed formats, saved as .rtf, changed fonts, did everything I could imagine to remove any offending code that could be crashing Pages. Subsequent paragraphs from my Word document cause no problem. Now here's the weird part: Since I needed that particular piece of text and copying the paragraph kept causing crashes , I actually TYPED the text into Pages - see there, when I reached a particular phrase the thing CRASHED AGAIN!!! Huh?? Now how can that be?? Of course, I thought it was something about the length of the pages doc and started typing all kinds of other things to try it out - no problem, but when I typed the offending text from my Word doc, crashing we go. Any insight is highly appreciated...

Could you post the text that makes Pages crash? Have you tried to write the problem text in a new Pages document without inserting anything from MS Word? What happens?

I just did. Brand new, blank document, when copied from Word - crash. Pages restarted, brand new, blank document, I type the text -crash!!! It seems we've found something here... Be careful, as some dead girl might be coming from the well through your TV (The Ring 1 and 2).

The offending text is (in Times New Roman, 11 pt):

In addition, as these were considered indirect effects of AOE’s presence in the area, impacts caused by the building of a new road running parallel to the flow line and by other human activities were also assessed to identify their role in environmental/biodiversity changes.

Does it crash when you copy & paste it from this Safari page?

When you say you took it through TextEdit, did you set TextEdit to be plain text paste into that and then copy it again from there?

Have you tried +Edit > Paste & Match Style+ ?

Peter

Yes to everything. Good thinking about copying and pasting from the Safari page, but amazingly enough, Pages crashes too!! The error report keeps insisting it's a problem with the SFWordProcessing plugin, but that doesn't explain why it would crash with that particular piece of text even when I type it from scratch... I tell ya', some mysterious forces at work here!

Pages is misbehaving. Start with closing Pages. Delete the com.apple.iwork.pages.plist file from Users > your name > Library > Preferences . Try Pages again

Check you font by validating them in Font Book.

Tell us if it helped or not and what happened.

If you get the +SFWordProcessing plugin error+ you need to do a *Complete Reinstall* of both Pages and using the downloaded *Combo 10.6.4* updater (not the System updater):

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=105&mforum=iworktips ntrick

Peter