Yikes!! Cannot copy and paste from ID to Word

[SuzzyFlamingo]

Tried everything - I just want to copy/cut and paste text. I keep getting this (see attached) running Office 365. 

This is the worst nightmare because we know Adobe will blame MSOFT and MSoft will blame Adobe, and I am stuck.

If I try to export the file to RTF it just exports the first text frame....:(

Any ideas?

SF

[Eugene Tyson]

Nobody blaming anyone - probably due to an incompatible text setting.

Try copying a smaller chunk and see if that pastes ok - then try the next chunk of text and keep trying to see where it's failing. 

Hard to know without much informaiton on what is being copy/cut/paste etc. 

You can always Export to PDF - then save from Acrobat as a Word Document. 

But copying and pasting into Word shouldn't be an issue. 

What version of INdesign?
What Operating System and version number please? 

[SuzzyFlamingo · Accepted solution]

I just realized that I cannot copy and paste from anywhere to anywhere in Windows. 

Restarted and now everything is working.

Thank You for your attention

[Thomas35240735ubv3]

Same problem on Mac OS from ID 2025 to MS Word. Unacceptable. And the "fix" offered to export to PDF is also a laugh. 

Can someone at Adobe explain why this is happening? Until InDesign incorporates the text management tools that Word/Excel enable — notably sorting, but there are a few others like text-to-columns and the ability to select down a column to eliminate indents and other leading and trailing content — it is egregious user abuse.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

You don't export the PDF, you export to RTF. That's just a slightly modified version of a Word document. 

[Thomas35240735ubv3]

Thanks, Dave, But exporting at all is essentially a violation of the whole idea of apples, universal clipboard. I don't understand why Adobe is suddenly not supporting that.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

One can argue that it is a problem with Adobe or with Apple--OR one can use the best method for exporting text to Word. 

[Thomas35240735ubv3]

One can do both. : )

Best,

tm

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Tom Mulhern

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