[Ti] [OT] copy and paste - Keynote®

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

I am using Keynote® 2.0.1 ALL the time, for 
preparing lectures and presentations.

There is something useful that I have found, that is also a puzle to me.

I am often copying and pasting from Word 11 in to 
Keynote® or from Keynote® in to Word 11.

Neither processes really work.  Text from Word 
goes in to Kynote in a not very useful format, 
that I can do little with.

Copying - for example Tables - from Keynote in to 
Word just produces black objects of no use to man 
nor beast.

The solution: to use OmniGraffle as an 
intermediate step, a sort of smart clipboard.

Copy text from Word in to an open blank 
Omnigraffle page, then copy it immediately - no 
treatment or processsing - in to Keynote.  Or 
copy a Table from Keynote in to Omnigraffle and 
then copy straight in to Word.

This intermediate step, which on the surface is 
doing nothing, provides a perfect copy and paste 
in to the target software.

Text from Word becomes a useful, resizeable object in Kkeynote.

Tables from Keynote are perfect in Word.

So

(1) HOW does this work >?

(2) WHY is the copy and paste routine in the 
Finder so inept, compared to this additional 
virtual step?

For me, this is a work-around.  To be able to do 
this normal operation directly would not just be 
elegant, it is how it should work.  It would save 
me a lot of time.

What is misssing in Word (or Keynote, or the 
Finder) that prevents the direct copy and paste?

I point the finger at Word, because I can copy 
Tables from Keynote directly in to Pages.
However, text from Pages in to Keynote works just 
the same as Word, and needs Omnigraffle to turn 
it in to a resizeable object.

Anyone else made these observations?

regards,  Trevor