dragging image from a browser only gives URL

[kbk]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

I just installed Office 2008 on both my Intel tower and Intel PowerBook. The problem I'm describing occurs on both machines (the previous PowerPoint version worked fine on both machines). When I drag an image from any browser onto a ppt slide, only the image's URL appears on the slide, not the image itself. The only 2 ways I can get the image onto the slide are to either drag it onto my desktop and then drag from my desktop to the ppt slide, or to right-click and choose "copy image" and then "paste special" selecting "picture" rather than "text" in the clipboard window. It would be nice to just be able to drag and drop, as I did with the earlier PowerPoint. I've looked at all settings and preference files in the Finder, Safari, Firefox, and PowerPoint, and nothing seems relevant. Here's the kicker - colleagues with similar machines do NOT have this problem. What am I doing/not doing?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

I just installed Office 2008 on both my Intel tower and Intel

PowerBook. The problem I'm describing occurs on both machines (the
previous PowerPoint version worked fine on both machines). When I
drag an image from any browser onto a ppt slide, only the image's
URL appears on the slide, not the image itself. The only 2 ways I
can get the image onto the slide are to either drag it onto my
desktop and then drag from my desktop to the ppt slide, or to
right-click and choose "copy image" and then "paste special"
selecting "picture" rather than "text" in the clipboard window.

No, there's another way, one that you really should use instead of
the ones you've mentioned.

Rightclick in the browser and use the browser's Save Image or
similar feature to save the picture to a file on your computer.
Then in PPT use Insert, Picture, From File to bring the picture in.

Is it more steps? Yes.

But it's more reliable and prevents some really oddball problems.