Unable to share Microsoft Office files containing embedded ChemDraw 16 structures between Mac and PC Operating Systems.

Unable to share Microsoft Office files containing embedded ChemDraw 16 structures between Mac and PC Operating Systems.

If you are trying to transfer Microsoft Word, Power Point or Excel files from a Mac document containing ChemDraw structures to MS Word or Power Point for Windows, you will need to save the file document as a Word or Power Point 5.1 document, and then transfer the 5.1 file to the Windows OS user.

Make sure that you are using Word or Power Point 6.0c or greater on Windows. Once you have transferred the Microsoft Office document to the PC properly, you will also be able to copy the structure out of Word or Power Point and paste into the latest ChemDraw Windows.

Please note that Microsoft documents containing embedded ChemDraw structures will not transfer properly to the Mac. MS Word and Power Point in Mac OS cannot translate the Windows graphics properly, so the structures will show low resolution or missing atom labels. In either case, the graphic cannot be edited by ChemDraw on the Mac. This is out of our control. Until Microsoft addresses this issue, your only option is to transfer the Word document and ChemDraw structures over to the Mac in separate documents then reassemble the Word document on the Mac.

Microsoft changed their scripts in MS Office 98+, and has not fixed this problem as of yet.

Workarounds:

Translate the Windows Word or Power Point document with MacLinkPlus into Word or Power Point 5.1 format (MacLinkPlus 13: Version 11 in Classic was used). It should then open in Word or Power Point X with the atom labels intact.

Another option for PowerPoint users is to open the PowerPoint Windows document in Apple's KeyNote program for the Mac. KeyNote does not have any problems with ChemDraw structures when opening a PowerPoint Windows document.

Save the ChemDraw structures as .tiff format in ChemDraw for Mac OS then paste the images in the Power Point file.