Copy and paste web pages is worse in Mac Pages than it is in MS Word!!!

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Copy and paste web pages is worse in Mac Pages than it is in MS Word!!!

I like iWork, very useful, but I think comparing one to other (to MS office) word is better than pages, right?
A lot of functonality of word is missing in pages, for example, if i like a text, fulled of pics and grafics, and tablets, I simply select everething I want from the web page, copy and paste it in MS Word. usually, it stays the same config it was in the original web page. But if I do that in pages, even if I choose: "paste exaclty the same" (something like that in paste options) it loses the configuration, putting the text out of the tablets, for example...
Am I right? Does it happen to ya?

macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.4), upgraded for 4GB memo

Posted on Sep 21, 2010 7:43 AM

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Sep 21, 2010 8:58 AM in response to Andre Berger

*Paste and Match Style* will force the pasted material to be just text. Don't use it.

Just do a regular Paste and it will mostly stay the same. It will try and fit oversize objects like graphics and try to make tables fit the space available.

To keep it as much like the web page give it lots of room.

Peter

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Andre Berger Author

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Sep 21, 2010 9:54 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Nahh, I`ve just tried it now! I copied this page, that we are writting - here in macforum, and I pasted in both word and pages.
Word matain this configuration, pages only copied the text, using ordinary paste or not...

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fruhulda

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Sep 21, 2010 10:46 AM in response to Andre Berger

PAges doesn't retain html code!

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Sep 21, 2010 4:32 PM in response to fruhulda

fruhulda

It does in part. You get the styling and links. It seems to drop the table structure however.

*iText Express* keeps it all.

Peter

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Andre Berger Author

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Sep 24, 2010 5:18 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

loll.. Do you know which app is better then both?
notepad.app
it copys everething right the same!!
uncredible
the simpliest, the best

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Sep 24, 2010 8:31 PM in response to Andre Berger

So does TextEdit.

Peter

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KOENIG Yvan

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Sep 25, 2010 2:01 AM in response to Andre Berger

Andre Berger wrote:
But if I do that in pages, even if I choose: "paste exaclty the same" (something like that in paste options) it loses the configuration, putting the text out of the tablets, for example...

You wrongly understood the menu item wording.

"Paste and Match style"

is described in *_Pages User Guide_* as :

+To have the copied text take on the style formatting of the text around it,+
+choose Edit > “Paste and Match Style.”+

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 25 septembre 2010 11:01:52

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Andre Berger Author

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Sep 25, 2010 12:40 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

I did it, but as I oberserved, all plates was lost... all pics... too
with word and notepad this problem don`t happen!

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KOENIG Yvan

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Sep 25, 2010 12:57 PM in response to Andre Berger

It appears that you didn't read carefully the user guide.

*_Paste and Match Style_* is written only once and when it is, *_it apply only to text object_*

So, there is no reason to compare a feature dedicated to text objects to features dedicated to composite objects.

Reading carefully, you wouldn't have wasted your time trying to get from "Paste and Match Style" what itsn't designed to give.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 25 septembre 2010 21:57:00

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