Pasting Blank Pictures In Word

[Brian K Jones]

I am working with version 14. The problem I have occurs when I try to copy tables from Stata output into Microsoft Word. Whenever I attempt this, the resulting picture is blank. My computer is a Macbook Pro. Any ideas why this is happening?

[Sergiy Radyakin]

What happens if you paste it not to Word, but to another program?

• If it works, likely it is a Word problem.
• If it doesn't, likely it is a Stata problem.

[Brian K Jones]

I also tried Mac Pages and got the same result.

[Hua Peng (StataCorp)]

I could not reproduce the issue, Stata 14 MP, Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Tried

sysuse auto
regress mpg price

then copied the regression table using "Copy", "Copy table", "Copy as HTML", and "Copy as picture", all worked fine.

Please first make sure your Stata is fully up to date by typing

update all

If the problem still existing after update, please contact Stata tech support at [email protected], please give detailed instructions and necessary datasets and do-files in order to reproduce the issue.

[Brian K Jones]

I update Stata each time it starts, so that is not the issue. I attached a screenshot of what I'm looking at. Did you successfully paste your output into Word?

[Cesar Augusto]

I'm having the same issue on Stata 14 and Microsoft Word 365 for MAC. The only solution I've found is to take a screenshot

[Jake Lauer]

I continue to have the same issue as was posted here. When I copy and paste I get a blank picture. Has anybody come up with a solution to this?

[Cesar Augusto]

I also have the same issue on Stata 14 and Microsoft Word 365 for MAC.

[Kameron Keller]

I'm having this problem, too. I'm running Stata SE 14.1 on El Capitan, and get the same result (blank picture) when pasting into MS Word, Pages, Preview, and Photoshop.

[Chinh Nguyen (StataCorp)]

I'm running Stata/MP 14.1 on El Capitan and had no problem pasting a table into TextEdit, Pages, and Word 2011. I'm working on getting Office 365 so I'll post the results of pasting into there later. I've included a video of me copying from Stata and pasting into TextEdit.

Can you please describe exactly which menu item you're selecting to copy the table?

[Chinh Nguyen (StataCorp)]

I just tested on Office 2016 (aka Office 365) and had no problem pasting a table from Stata into Word. I've included a video.

[Brian Anderson]

I'm having a similar issue, and Chinh, I was not able to reproduce your results. Copy as Table works fine, but Copy as Picture turns up a blank white image. Interestingly, it works fine on an older iMac with El Capitan and Stata 14.1. It does not work on a new MacBookPro, also running El Capitan and Stata 14.1

[Cesar Augusto]

I was having the same problem using Stata 14.1 on a Macbook Pro 15' with OS X El Capital version 10.11.5 with Microsft Word 365; however, after updating Stata 14.1 -update all- the problem has been solved.

[Rachel Effie]

I am having this same issue. State 14 is up to date as is MS word on Mac and unable to post picture of table into any applications (get blank box) but able to paste as text or HTML.

Was a fix to this issue ever determined?

Thanks

[Pauline Ariane]

I had the same issue and updated my Stata 14.1 and the issue was solved. However, I could not update Stata simply by typing -update all- as I had a 'bad serial number'. Instead, I followed instructions on this link: https://www.stata.com/support/updates/stata14.html and it worked!

Hope this helps!