But it now works.Įxcept: it now doublespaces in MacMail. Then you just have to re-format all the colors and bold and font size. The fix was simple, if not exactly perfect: select the text, then change the style to normal. At some time, it got this weird style and it just stayed with the files. We just copy one file to the next for this rather complicated format. My guess is that it was text copied from an email into the Word doc which has propagated over the years. To add text, select inside the box and type or your paste text. If you select Draw Text Box, click in the document, and then drag to draw the text box the size that you want. I have no idea where that came from, as I don't have it as a style in my Word. Go to Insert > Text Box, and then select one of the pre-formatted text boxes from the list, select More Text Boxes from, or select Draw Text Box. It turns out that the document was formatted with a Style "Z-Top of Form". I can cut and paste into a Word document, into Notes, into Text Edit. I can see all the formatting characters, and they are the same. If I maintain compatibility with older formats, it still doesn't work. If I save the file as a docx (htm), it still doesn't work. If I save the file locally, it still doesn't work. This is using all 4 methods: the keyboard ^C-^V, menu copy and paste, context menu (right-click) copy and paste, and highlight, click & drag.
#Cannot copy and paste text into word for mac
The other is a 2015 iMac running Mojave, Word for Mac 16.54īoth machines have exactly the same symptoms, and 90% of the time they work perfectly.īut on some Word documents, if you cut and past directly from word into mail, nothing happens. This happens on 2 different machines: mine running 10.11 on a 2009 iMac, Office 2008 Some, but not all, Word documents will not copy and paste text into Mail. I'm posting so everyone else with this problem can fix it. I was testing all the parameters, and found that it was a STYLE problem.