copying and pasting pics from web

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copying and pasting pics from web

I'm tried using safari and firefox to simply select a photo, copy it, and then paste it into a Word document.

Background: my 13 year old is trying to take some pics of various things that are common to her age group and copy/paste them into a document for homework. She ended up on the pc (!!!) to make it work quickly. I asked her why? She says, dad I can't simply copy and paste a pic from the net to a word document on the mac. She flew along on the pc and got the job done quickly.

She is correct. I tried it myself using safari and firefox. I can select a photo (say a plasma tv pic from best buy, for example) and copy the image. I have tried using the "edit" command, the right click short cuts, etc. All produce the same result: a long series of http sentences pointing to the pic, not the pic itself. Seems the only work around is to take the pic, save it to a folder/desktop, then import that image into the word document.

Any ideas why it can be done so simply and straightforward on a pc but not on a mac? Why doesn't copy/paste work with the actual photo on the mac similar to how it works on the pc?

Feedback and ideas are appreciated.

PowerMac G4 1.42 duel Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Oct 18, 2006 7:10 PM

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Answer 1

Eme

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Oct 18, 2006 10:11 PM in response to Kraftsims

Hi,

I find that it is very easy on a mac. I use office:mac
Just click on the image drag & drop it onto Word web page.
Try that, drag the picture/image right on the page no need to c & paste.

Note, if using Office 2004 or Office:mac v.x
they both have Security updates [patch]
Hth.

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Oct 18, 2006 10:48 PM in response to Eme

Yes, you can just drag and drop the image and you can actualy enable right click in the system preferences so you can just right click the image and click copy or you can highlight the image and hit the hot key apple+C to copy and apple+v to paste.

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Answer 3

Dec 14, 2006 10:48 AM in response to Kraftsims

I'm curious to know if anyone knows WHY this occurs with Safari and Office 2004 on the mac platform. Yes, it is an easy workaround to drag the picture from the browser window into the office document, but why does the linkto the image display instead of the image itself?

Reflecting on it objectively, from the user's perspective it seems counter-intuitive because right-clicking on an image in the Safari browser provides TWO options; to either "Copy the image address" or "copy image." But it seems like Safari sends the image to the clipboard as a hyperlink rather than a binary file regardless of which choice is made. I'm wondering it Apple designed Safari to perform this action on purpose (perhaps to head off potential copyright infringement allegations?), or maybe there is a preference somewhere in Safari which can be set to change this clipboard behavior.

Teachers and students in my school district have asked me why Safari pastes just the hyperlink rather than the image and I never have a good answer other than "just drag the picture to the document instead, or, "use Firefox."

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Answer 4

Dec 14, 2006 11:58 AM in response to Eme

Note, if using Office 2004 or Office:mac v.x
they both have Security updates [patch] Hth.

Hi Maria~~~~~~

Updates were pulled by Microsoft yesterday. They were prematurely released - cause "human error". Not a good idea to use the patch as testing has not been done by MS.

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