Hi Peter It may not work for a list of movie files but you can copy and paste a list of applications from the Applications folder into Pages. However, as with Numbers, the list is replicated numerous time in Pages, whereas it is correctly pasted only once in an MS Word document.
It seems the multiple pasting behaviour occurs throughout the iWork suite (yes I just tried it in Keynote and Powerpoint as well!) but M$ Office seems to handle the pasting correctly. Perhaps it's just one of iWork's little mysteries! Cheers Jane On 06/06/2012, at 8:16 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > On 06/06/2012, at 6:58 AM, Winters John wrote: > >> Carlo, >> >> An even simpler way to get that list of file names (without delving into >> Terminal) is to open a Finder window, select all (or your preferred subset >> of the) files. Copy with command-C, then paste into your Pages (or other >> text capable) document. > > This categorically does NOT work in Pages. I just tried it using a Finder > Window containing a list of 13 movie files. When I copied the list and pasted > into a new Pages document, I ended up with several pages of embedded movies. > > What DOES work, though, is pasting into a new TextEdit window, providing you > first make sure that you change the format to plain text (Format > Make Plain > Text). If left as Rich Text, the result is again a document full of embedded > movies (after a L O N G wait!). It should also work in any other text editor > that is plain text only, such as BBEdit, Text Wrangler, Espresso, etc. > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
