Long Hours of Design

In addition to experiencing it myself, I’ve seen numerous reports on the web of people having trouble pasting text from Word 2008 (Mac) to various Adobe applicaitons.

When copying text from Word, the resulting paste in, say, InDesign is a graphic, not text. ^{[ 1 ]}

While I can’t vouch for every Adobe application, the general rule seems to be:

You have to paste the text at an insertion point; ie, you have to have a blinking cursor in order to paste as text.

So, in InDesign, you would either have to drag out a new text frame, make sure you’ve got an insertion point, and then paste. Or, ensure you’ve got an insertion point blinking in an existing text frame, and then paste.

That should solve it.