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OFF98: Cannot Drag Clipping File to Office Program

Article ID: 179580

Article Last Modified on 11/25/2003

APPLIES TO

This article was previously published under Q179580

SYMPTOMS

When you are trying to drag a clipping file into a Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition program, the clipping file may not be moved to the program, and the following error message may appear:
There is insufficient memory. Save the document now.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs when the following conditions are true:

  • You are using Mac OS 8.0.

    -and-
  • You create a clipping file from an Office program.

    -and-
  • You try to drag the clipping file into an Office program.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, try using the Scrapbook. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. On the Apple menu, click Scrapbook.
  2. Drag the clipping file to the Scrapbook.

    The clipping file is placed in the Scrapbook.
  3. Start the Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition program.
  4. Arrange both programs so that you can easily view them.
  5. Drag the picture clipping from the Scrapbook to the Office program.
  6. Switch to Scrapbook.
  7. To remove the picture clipping from the Scrapbook, click Clear on the Edit menu.
  8. Click Quit on the File menu.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

The behavior a clipping file varies. The behavior depends on the object type of the clipping file and the Microsoft Office program that created the object.

The behavior for a given object type that is created in and dragged to an Office program is listed in the following table. 
   Object         Created in       Dragged to       Behavior
   ---------------------------------------------------------------

   AutoShapes     Excel            Excel            Is not dragged
   Textboxes      Excel            Excel            Is not dragged
   Cells          Excel            Excel            Is dragged
   Charts         Excel            Excel            Is not dragged
   WordArt        Excel            Excel            Is not dragged
   Clipart        Excel            Excel            Is not dragged
   Movie          Excel            Excel            Is not dragged

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------

   AutoShapes     Excel            PowerPoint       Is not dragged
   Textboxes      Excel            PowerPoint       Is not dragged
   Cells          Excel            PowerPoint       Is not dragged
   Charts         Excel            PowerPoint       Is not dragged
   WordArt        Excel            PowerPoint       Is not dragged
   Clipart        Excel            PowerPoint       Is not dragged
   Movie          Excel            PowerPoint       Is not dragged

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   AutoShapes     Excel            Word             Is not dragged
   Textboxes      Excel            Word             Is not dragged
   Cells          Excel            Word             Insufficient memory
                                                    (Save the document.)
   WordArt        Excel            Word             Is not dragged
   Clipart        Excel            Word             Is not dragged
   Movie          Excel            Word             Is not dragged

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------

   AutoShapes     Word            Word              Is dragged
   Textboxes      Word            Word              Is not dragged
   WordArt        Word            Word              Is dragged
   Clipart        Word            Word              Is dragged
   Movie          Word            Word              Is not dragged
   Text           Word            Word              Is dragged

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------

   AutoShapes     Word            Excel             Is dragged
   Textboxes      Word            Excel             Is not dragged
   WordArt        Word            Excel             Is dragged
   Clipart        Word            Excel             Is dragged
   Movie          Word            Excel             Is not dragged
   Text           Word            Excel             Is dragged

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------

   AutoShapes     Word            PowerPoint        Is dragged
   Textboxes      Word            PowerPoint        Is not dragged
   WordArt        Word            PowerPoint        Is dragged
   Clipart        Word            PowerPoint        Is dragged
   Movie          Word            PowerPoint        Is not dragged
   Text           Word            PowerPoint        Is dragged

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------

   AutoShapes     PowerPoint           PowerPoint   Is dragged
   Textboxes      PowerPoint           PowerPoint   Is dragged
   WordArt        PowerPoint           PowerPoint   Is dragged
   Clipart        PowerPoint           PowerPoint   Is not dragged
   Movie          PowerPoint           PowerPoint   Is not dragged

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------

   AutoShapes     PowerPoint           Excel        Is dragged
   Textboxes      PowerPoint           Excel        Is dragged
                                                    (Formatting is
                                                    different.)
   WordArt        PowerPoint           Excel        Is dragged
   Clipart        PowerPoint           Excel        Is not dragged
   Movie          PowerPoint           Excel        Is not dragged
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   AutoShapes     PowerPoint           Word         Is dragged
   Textboxes      PowerPoint           Word         Is dragged
                                                    (Formatting is
                                                    different.)
   WordArt        PowerPoint           Word        Is dragged
   Clipart        PowerPoint           Word        Is not dragged
   Movie          PowerPoint           Word        Is not dragged

REFERENCES

For more information about drag-and-drop editing, click Contents and Index on the Help menu, click the Index button in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

drag-and-drop editing

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Drag information between programs" topic.

Additional query words: OFF98 XL98 PPT98 WD98 picture clipping text clipping

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