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With the end of the support lifecycle life cycle for Office 2011 on 10/10/2017, it may no longer be possible to install Office 2011 on newer versions of macOS.
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Microsoft changed how pasting works in Office 2016 for the Mac, as PerkinElmer support posts noted:
- http://forums.cambridgesoft.com/messageview.aspx?catid=12&threadid=3415
- http://forums.cambridgesoft.com/messageview.aspx?catid=12&threadid=3187
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- https://www.chemdoodle.com/features/universality/
- Round-trip Editing: Round-trip editing allows you to insert content into 3rd party applications, and then place that same content back into ChemDoodle from that 3rd party application for further editing. Round-trip editing is supported on Windows through OLE, Mac OS X via PDF and on Linux with OpenOffice.
Continuing to use Microsoft Office 2011 (Mac) to "solve" this issue has worked but is is not sustainable
Up to now (as of August 2017), most people in our department have managed this change by continuing to use Office 2011 for Word and PowerPoint. This strategy is not sustainable for the reasons cited below.
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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):
| OK | OK | FAIL |
Created/ edit on a Mac: Office 2011 (Word):
| OK | OK | FAIL |
Created/ edit on a Mac: Office 2016 (Word):
| FAIL | FAIL | FAIL |
Created/ edit on a Mac: Office 2016 (Word):
| OK | OK | FAIL |
Created/ edit on a Windows: Any Office version (Word):
| OK? | OK? | OK? |
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Historical data-points (re: prior versions)
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 an old Office 2011 file in Office 2016 and re-saving 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.
- You must instead "Paste as PDF" (via menu or via ⌘+Control+V).
- You must instead "Paste as PDF" (via menu or via ⌘+Control+V).
Supporting documentation
- Issue came up with MS Office 2016, back in version ChemDraw v13:
- Still a noted issue with ChemDraw v15:
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