Trying to highlight a section of text on a web page. Then copy and paste in Word. Just upgraded to Win7. Can't highlight text.

Trying to highlight a section of text on a web page. Then copy and paste to Word. Just upgraded to Win7. Can't highlight text. Won't work in IE either. Think it is a Win7 issue.

Hi Cousins --
Glad to have helped! Thd dots indicate the level of helping --
https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/reputation.html
I was thinking this may help you in your conversion from "the dark side," LOL.
It's an article just for switchers:
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

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Is there really no way to simply copy and paste some TEXT from Word to ID?? Who asked for text to be pasted as images?

Sorry, I know this is an old post, but I'm not really finding many newer posts about this (although I did also find this article online via built-in InDesign Help, which contains a couple more recent responses: http://indesignsecrets.com/when-pasting-text-from-word-turns-it-into-an-image-in-indesign. php).
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I can also paste the text from Word into Dreamweaver and then into InDesign, and it'll be actual text in both locations, without having to first draw a text frame in InDesign.
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I even tried saving the file as a text-only file (.txt), opened that in Word, copied some text, pasted into InDesign with nothing selected... still being pasted as an image.
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