Word won't paste images from web?

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I had to rub my eyes. But Word will not accept copy pasted images from the web. I've scoured the internet and done everything here: http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/InvisibleGraphics.htm

Naturally nothing worked.

What am I missing?

Sure, you can individually copy images into Paint and then copy them to Word but what if you want text and images? Madness.

My Cut, copy and paste settings:

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '16 at 21:29

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After copying the image in the web browser, go to Word and click the down arrow on the Paste icon (Home tab), select Paste Special, then select Device Independent Bitmap.

answered Oct 26 '16 at 21:29

LCLCLC

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 09 '15 at 05:51

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This happens with images that are produced from binary data, in the "data:image/ext;encode,binary" format.

There's nothing that can be done for Microsoft Word but you can use LibreOffice and then past from LibreOffice into Word.

answered Aug 09 '15 at 05:51

Veta

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gandreoti · Answer 3 · 2017-10-11T08:18:19.297

What worked for me after I’ve tried all instructions and recommendations without success was to restore advanced settings in the internet properties. To do so open internet properties in Control Panel -> Tab Advanced -> Click on Restore Advanced Settings button.

In my case some websites with hyperlinks from others sources didn’t show the images, however if the images were in the same domain they’re displayed properly.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 29 '18 at 12:38

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You can simply copy individual images from any web site and use "paste special" in word as bitmap. Unfortunately you must do it for each image. I couldn't find a way to copy multiple images from a web page in one go.

answered Oct 29 '18 at 12:38

Amin

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 06 '18 at 17:46

Once I solved it by reseting security settings in Internet Options dialog (Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Security -> Custom Level -> Reset). In Medium Low level I could paste pictures but in Medium High level I could not paste pictures. So, I decided to reset Medium High. I copied this from another forum, sorry to the poster but I can't remember your name, This worked for me!!! I reset mine to medium and it worked I can now copy and paste Yippee!!

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 08 '19 at 08:24

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I reset Advanced Internet Setting to and it worked.

I then looked into what changed and it looks like "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" under Security was ticked.

Unticked, works like a charm, ticked and it stops working on many pages.

answered Jul 08 '19 at 08:24

Smashed

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jul 22 '19 at 16:08

I managed to hit a triple jackpot, myself:

While copying a web page, the images, hosted on the server, would not appear on Word.
Tried embedding them in data URIs, but that didn't work either (and never will, it seems).
Put them on a directory and switched to relative URLs. That didn't work either. I noticed a garbled path in a tool tip while clicking on the broken images. Turns out Word would wrongly encode the full local path as Unicode instead of UTF-8 or some such, so it garbled non-ASCII characters.
I moved everything to a root directory with an ASCII name, and finally it worked.
Then it dawned on me: I had denied Word access to the network, out of sheer annoyance, after installing NOD32, so no wonder it couldn't download the images in the first place. Unblocking it on the firewall fixed #1.

To recap, Word doesn't likes embedded images, it might mess up non-ASCII paths, and my firewall works as it should (though I wish Word would show an error instead of silently failing at life).

Word won't paste images from web?

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