If you use a Mac and ChemDraw, now is the time to learn the changed procedure to copy-and-paste ChemDraw elements for roundtrip editing with MS Office documents.

The changed occurred after Microsoft Office 2011 (Mac). And staying with that version of Office is not a viable long-term solution.

One option is to learn to get a ChemDraw object into Word or PowerPoint differently:

• Step one has not changed: Copy (⌘+C) from ChemDraw.
• Step two has changed: Paste as PDF (⌘+Control+V), instead of drag and drop or a simple Paste, into an Office 2016 document.

Most people in our department have up to this point managed this change by continuing to use Office 2011 for Word and PowerPoint. This strategy is not sustainable. To wit, Microsoft is dropping support for Office 2011 this October. Microsoft currently offers Office 2016, and no other version is available for download via Office 365 to personal computers. And a forthcoming macOS version may not properly support Office 2011.