Copying a Picture Conundrum - Anyone Up For Solving?

Harpa · ‎03-10-2010

I used PaintBrush a long time ago to hand draw a silhouette, which I copied onto a Microsoft Word document. From there, I then tried to copy the silhouette into an on-line course document that I am teaching. It never copied. I just got the empty box and the little hieroglyph at the top corner.

Why do some clip art things not copy, and why did my silhouette not copy from my Word document?

Any remedy?

TY!

RainyDayGal · ‎03-09-2010

Do you have the original artwork, and did you have it as a .jpg? Sometimes I can drag the cursor over a photo and then copy it that way. Do you happen to have "Snipping Tool"? You could try that if you do.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

Do you currently have the Microsoft Word program on this computer? Without it, of course, you cannot open docs that are saved in that format.

ThinkOutsidetheBox · ‎01-23-2011

What version of Windows do you currently have?

Harpa · ‎03-10-2010

Windows 2000 - XP.

I have no probs opening any of my documents. It's just in copying...

It will do the same thing here....

See?

I have no idea of what that snipping tool is.

edit: Well, when I pasted in my copied silhouette here, that same empty box w/ the hieroglyph was there, but in my post, it's gone!

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

The online course document is....what type of program?

Zhills · ‎11-15-2011

Do a Ctrl & Prt Scr and paste it into your picture program.

Use selection (or clip) to cut out your sketch and save it as a .jpg

The .jpg will paste into a new Word Document

Let me know if this works for you. I use it.

lolakimono · ‎03-29-2012

Copy the item, then in Word, go to Home, Paste SPECIAL, and then select device independent bitmap. Try that and see if it works.

Harpa · ‎03-10-2010

No problem copying w/ special pasting in Word.

I'm sure it has to do w/ the program the college is working with (WebStudy). (But it also doesn't work here.)

Thanks, anyway! I'll fool around with it some more, and then ask the IT people at college.

lolakimono · ‎03-29-2012

Right, but when you paste it into Word, do you use "device independent bitmap?". Then it's not linked to the site, but rather the Word doc. Try that, and then copy/paste from Word.