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If you use a Mac and ChemDraw, learn the procedure to copy-and-paste ChemDraw elements for roundtrip editing with MS Office 2016 documents. The changed occurred after Microsoft Office 2011 (Mac) and staying with that version of Office is not a viable long-term solution.

Summary, for end-users

If you use a Mac and ChemDraw, now is the time to learn the procedure to copy-and-paste ChemDraw elements for roundtrip editing with MS Office 2016 documents. The changed occurred after Microsoft Office 2011 (Mac) and staying with that version of Office is not a viable long-term solution.

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What you need to know: Mac's MS Office and ChemDraw

The procedure to copy-and-paste ChemDraw elements for roundtrip editing with MS Office documents changed after Microsoft Office 2011 (Mac).

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  • Step one is unchanged: copy (⌘+C).
  • Step two has changed:Paste as PDF (⌘+Control+V) instead of drag and drop into an Office 2016 document.

 

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Status in Chemistry:

As of 1/17/17:

Researchers and others to reach out to, in person:

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MethodDates, aproxNotes
Documented (wiki)Fall 2016Done, always being added to.
Newsletter (and News item) Do "now", as of Jan 17, 2017
Talk about and meet with groups and individuals See above table.
Computing Cmt's role?  

ChemDraw 16:

Came out ~11/1/16:

The issues in the following section all apply to ChemDraw 16 as well as Chemdraw 15 and Chemdraw 15.1 on Apple MacOS computers.

To do:

What and where is the metadata embedded in files which can roundtrip?

  • For both TIFF and(?) PDF.

What of Apple's applications?

  • Keynote. Heavily used by Geoff Coates, for example

Ensure the following compatibility behavior matrix is completed and accurate

  • For any more-recent version of MacOS (macOS), Windows, and ChemDraw.
  • Pay attention to version of MS Word (MS Office).
  • Similar cut-and-paste issue as with MathType, apparently.
  • Note: When creating pasting from CD into Windows (Office 16), it is possible to Paste Special from ribbon as a "CS ChemDraw Object" - double click image to roundtrip edit
  • All with current version of ChemDraw (v16).

 

 

From ChemDraw to the following type of Word file:

Tested file on left on a Mac:

Open in Word (Office 2011) => ChemDraw

Tested file on left on a Mac:

Open in Word (Office 2016) => ChemDraw

 

Tested file on left on Windows:

Word (Office 2016) => ChemDraw

Created/ edit on a Mac: Office 2011 (Word):

  • METHOD 1 (default): Drag or cut-and-paste
OKOKFAIL

Created/ edit on a Mac: Office 2011 (Word):

  • METHOD 2 (new): Paste Special => PDF
OKOKFAIL
Created/ edit on a Mac: Office 2016 (Word):
  • METHOD 1 (default): Drag or cut-and-paste
FAILFAILFAIL
Created/ edit on a Mac: Office 2016 (Word):
  • METHOD 2 (new): Paste Special => PDF
OKOKFAIL

Created/ edit on a Windows: Any Office version (Word):

  • The basic METHOD (default): Drag or cut-and-paste
OK?OK?OK?

See also:

End of mainstream support (no more security patching) for Microsoft Office 2011 on October 2017

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Microsoft changed how pasting works in Office 2016 for the Mac

Issues with Round trip editing on Macs

  • For those using Office 2011 on Macs, it was possible to be able to drag and drop from Chemdraw into Word 2011 and drag and drop the image back into Chemdraw for editing. This is no longer the case for Office 2016.
  • Dragging and dropping from ChemDraw 15.1 to Word 2016 will paste an image into the Word document but the image will NOT be editable
  • Copying(⌘+C) and Pasting (⌘+V) will only paste text into Word(2016)
  • IMPORTANT: Opening a old Office 2011 file in Office 2016 and resaving it will not affect the images already in the document (you can drag them into Chemdraw for editing). However, anything dragged into Office 2016 will still not be editable

Workarounds:

  • Use paste as PDF instead of dragging and dropping. Copy the image from ChemDraw(⌘+C) and Paste it into Word 2016 using ⌘+Control+V instead of ⌘+V.

Supporting documentation

http://media.cambridgesoft.com/support/manuals/15_1/ChemOffice%20v15.1%20Release%20Notes.pdf

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