If you make a selection in Adobe Photoshop and try to paste it into Microsoft Word it won’t work well (and sometimes won’t work at all). Microsoft and Adobe are trying to use OLE (object linking and embeding) a novel concept from the 90′s that just doesn’t work very well. Once you paste the PhotoShop file into Word it’s litterly embeded and you can double click the object to open it back in Photoshop. Nice concept but it doesn’t work well. Once pasted in Word you can’t do even simple manipulations in Word such as resizing, cropping or anything else using Word.
The file size gets significantly larger because you have now pasted a bunch of extra info into Word and in addition the quality tends to be much lower. As an extra bouns instead of just loading Word you’re now loading Photoshop and Word at the same time. Ugh. OLE is pretty terrible and only programs that have been around since the 90′s still support it as a legacy thing.
The solution is to copy from PhotoShop, Paste into MS Paint, Copy from MS Paint and paste into Microsoft Word. The extra step is a pain. I’ve been using this trick for years and every time I get a new version of Word or Photoshop I hope that someone will have fixed this ‘feature.
P.S. You can also use Word’s ‘paste special’ to work around this as well but there’s nothing special about what I’m doing. Pasting an image without the embeded part should be the default.
greg, got a new pc a coupla wks ago [no vista here, xp for me], and like u, I
was certain this glitch must’ve been fixed. i need to copy from photoshop 2 word docs all the time, and aaaargh!
thanx 4 the ms paint workaound.
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thanks again!
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Just had this problem with CS and word 2009. This has just come up. Never had an issue with it before and it suddenly started doing it. What a bunch of tards and what a nightmare it has caused. Spent the last 2 hours ripping my hair out about this thing. God damn, your right about them not fixing it. Stupid. Unbelievable with all the useless bells and whistles those programs have.
Good news and bad news: Word 2010 will still have this stupid “feature”. But the good news is you’ll be able to set the default paste. Set it to Windows Metafile, and pasting from Photoshop will work the way it should. (Unlike the former Mrs. Truelove.)
Thank you so much Greg… Worked fine for me.
He-man, India.