Sorry, Bob's right... The culprit is the browser, not Word. Word will
accept anything it finds on the clipboard. It's up to the browser to get
stuff onto the clipboard where it can be pasted.
You may want to check to see if there is a more modern version of your
browser available. I just tried this on
http://www.smh.com.au/ with Firefox
3.5.3 in Word 2004 on OS 10.6.1 and it "worked"
It even worked in Word
2008!
Sadly, Safari is a lost cause: Safari 4.0.3 won't even go close. I guess
Safari is a lightweight browser that's tuned for speed, not power
I should heavily qualify "worked"
I mean it took several minutes, and
produced a 30-page document that looked nothing like the Sydney Morning
Herald. However, I did get some of the formatting and all of the pictures.
The SMH is a truly difficult web page to choose because it is layered with a
huge number of "non-text widgets" of one sort or another: you will be lucky
if you get anything from it.
The key is to use Edit>Paste Special>HTML format. "HTML" is a stupid name:
it actually means "Word's native internal format" which is XML, not HTML.
But "Marketing" decided that we were all too stupid to understand XML, so
they want it called HTML.
Since you are using Word 2004, you can actually use "Open Web Page" to open
the web page inside Word. The result will be quite ugly, because Word's
HTML capability is intentionally very limited (to prevent Internet
nasties...).
But you will get some of the formatting and pictures.
To do this, reveal the "Web" toolbar. The button you want is the "Open Web
Page" button at the left end of that toolbar. It pops up an address box you
can paste the URL of the webpage in.
If you use the other address box on that toolbar, Word will hand the request
off to the default browser. If the web page you are after is too complex,
Word will grind away and fail, or spit it out to the browser.
Word can cope only with Static HTML. Most modern websites such as the SMH
use active server pages or Java script or XML, so they can spray ads at you.
Word will throw all of that on the floor, which means you may get nothing.
They took the Web toolbar out of Word 2008, because so many web sites out
there now serve pages that are not "documents" and Word simply can't process
them.
Cheers
Thank you Cyber Taz,
but the difference in the Mac and Windows versions are that the paste special
(I have a German version) shows for the Mac version only unformatted text and
for the Windows version both, unformatted Text and HTML. The same is for open
office.
I use on both systems firefox.
Velo
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