Adding photo to Word Document

Apple provided a means by which programmers could access the iPhoto/Aperture library. I assume Apple has or will provide a similar mechanism for Photos - but programs will need to be updated. Whether Office 2011 will get this option I don’t know but I’m sure the new version due out later this year will.

I'm having the same problem too after updating to latest version of Yosemite, with iphotos I could drag and drop to programs such as Pages, Thunderbird email messages, Garage Sale etc but with Photos I can find no way of doing this, I think it is a Photos issue rather than another program needing a update otherwise you would think it would work with Pages also being Apple?

Basic workaround I am using is instead of importing from memory card to Photos I import to a folder in Finder window instead and then I can drag and drop without a problem although this then makes photos app redundant

It is a shame as that was a great feature on iPhotos and hope they update soon

For Apple programs the media browser should work - it does with Pages and Mail for example. For Office 2011 the media browser only shows the iPhoto library on my machine. On the Preview release of Office 2016 the media browser does show iPhoto and Photos library.

Copy/Paste works for word and pages but dosen't work for Thunderbird or Garage Sale, also tried the the native Mail program in Yosemite and that also dosn't work with drag/drop, copy and paste in Mail just puts in a link and not the photo but thanks anyway for reply

I am running the latest Yosemite update that deleted Iphoto and Aperture

This really helped but I don't have this option in any of my Office packages (Word, Powerpoint etc). Its very very frustrating...I was using Aperture and I can only access Aperture and iPhotos libararys. When I updated with Photos - Photos took my entire Aperture library and transferred it to photos so now I don't even have my photos in Aperture to insert into documents! So frustrating.

I don't have the Word option to insert photos pictures. Do I need to do something to my computer - I think one mention was to do a disk utility but I have not done that before.

Terence, you're using the Office for Mac Preview software. The issue has been fixed in the new version, due out later this year. This is not helpful to the Word 2011 users who have this question.

As I said above:

I have both 2011 and the new beta of 2015 or whatever it's called. Works in both.

It's not as I have it in Word. I don't have Outlook installed so I can't check but this is word:

Try repair permissions with Disk Utility and restart.

This is my screen shot.

I have the same problem and posted a question 2 days ago with no reply yet.

Insert -> Pictures -> From browser works for me, what do you get if you go that route?

Terrence, when i go to the from browser I only get iPhotos and Photo booth as my option. The new photo does not appear.

Some folks fixed that with a restart of their Macs.

A restart does not fix it.

Interesting - I can drag a photo into Pages and a couple other programs but not Word. However I could drag from Photos to the desktop and then from the desktop into Word.