Note: This feature was rewritten from scratch in CKEditor 4.6 and is now greatly improved when compared with previous versions in: It also adds the Paste from Word toolbar button which makes it possible to paste clipboard data this way only on demand. Thank you for taking the time to help me solve this problem.This plugin allows you to paste content from Microsoft Word and maintain original content formatting. There is no reason for them to change the functionality and yet they clearly Microsoft is normally excellent at maintaining functionality and compatibility between old and new versions of Office however in this case it appears that they have missed something. Something has changed in Word that cause it to automatically convert WMFs to EMFs and I am trying to come up with a solution to this - if there is a solution. Older versions of Word handled this without any problems and newer versions of Word still have the ability to leave WMFs alone as is proven by the VBA code: Pasted from the clipboard into a document. The issue causes serious problems when printing metafiles that were

I appreciate your suggestions however I want to solve the problem of pasting a Metafile (WMF) from the clipboard into a Word document without Word automatically converting it to an EMF. Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteMetafilePicture, Placement:=wdInLine The program that I am using to generate the bar codes is called B-Coder Professional and you can download a demo version of it from the following web page: Perhaps there is a registry setting or a secret option in Word that will fix the problem? If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. I was hoping to find a setting in Word that would cause Word to not automatically convert standard Metafile images toĮnhanced Metafiles. Get the images to paste into a Word document without getting converted however this is unusable on systems where macros have been disabled. I was able to write a macro (shown below) to Has disappeared from the Paste Special window and I am not able to paste the bar code images into a Word document using the Paste or Paste Special options without the image being converted and rendered useless. In the very latest versions of Word, the 'Picture (Windows Metafile)' option To get around this, I would select Paste Special and then choose the option 'Picture (Windows Metafile)' and the image would be rendered correctly and not be converted. Starting in Word 2007 or so, If I selected 'Paste', Word would convert the image to an Enhanced Metafile automatically and when it did this, it would cause some of the bars in the bar codes to be rendered with the wrong widths and thus become unreadable In early versions of Word, I could simply paste the images into a Word document and they would display and print correctly. I have a software package that generates bar code images and places them in the Windows clipboard as Windows Metafile images.

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