How to copy web page text and images to MS Word

Question

From time to time I want to copy and paste a portion of a web document (viewed in both IE Explorer 7 and 8) into MS Word 2007. The selected text copies and pastes fine, but I am left with only place holders for the images (png). Right clicking the image and clicking copy, then pasting into MS Word doesn't work either. If I paste the image into MS Paint and copy it from there, I can paste it into the Word document. What gives?

Answer 1

Right click and Copy might not work in all cases as described by John that they maybe behind some web-based authentication. Try selecting them by dragin the pointer around them, just like you select text and then press CTRL+C.. Go to Word, and Paste.. Should work.

Answer 2

There are some options in Word 2007 that you should check. For instance: Advanced > Show Document Content > Show Picture Placeholders.

Another factor is the view you're using in Word. Some views, like Draft, don't show images normally. Try switching to Print Layout view.

Answer 3

In Word 2007 I always had a problem when copying webpages into it. The page would not fit, and go outside the columns, etc. until I found this:

• Copy
• Paste,
• Then select: Page layout
• Select: Web layout

Answer 4

There are two things that you want to do:

1. Copy the text and the pictures together
2. Copy the text first and then right click->Save Picture As..., choose a .jpeg file. Then after that, go to Microsoft Word, select Insert->Picture->From File..., then select the file from your C: drive or wherever it was saved

Answer 5

Save the web page as mht file from Internet Explorer. Edit the file in MS Word. Now you can also copy past from one file to another MS Word file.

Answer 6

Do you have the Drag and drop or copy and paste files option set to Enable?

You can customize IE security settings for internet zone :

Tools | Internet Options | Security 

Answer 7

If the selected images are behind some sort of web-based authentication, Word will send another request for the image which fails. Word will follow IE's setting for this.

I'm not sure on the exact location of it in IE8, but in earlier versions it was under Tools -> Internet Options -> General tab -> "Settings" button under the Temporary Internet Files section. You'd get an interface similar to this:

Where it says Check for newer versions of stored pages, set it to Automatically.

Answer 8

I seem to have mixed results. It works for me on some webpages but not others, with different results in different browsers. For one stubborn page that I frequently copy from, I found the following results:

• Internet Explorer 9: Could not copy picture, with or without text.

• Chrome: Could not copy picture, with or without text.

• Firefox 6: Could not copy text and picture at the same time, but could right click on picture, and copy the picture by itself.

• Firefox 6 with IE Tab addon: if in IE mode, I COULD copy the picture, with or without text, successfully. So this has been my workaround for this issue.