As software has grown more sophisticated, there is more opportunity for users to mash up content between different programs. The Excel spreadsheet program, for example, used to handle only text and ...

Although the Mac offers fantastic support for opening and editing PDFs in the built-in Preview app, the simple act of copying and pasting text from a PDF can still be a nightmare. For instance, ...

There are few things worse than trying to copy a string of text from a PDF, only to find that you can't highlight any text at all. Thankfully, bypassing a locked PDF is easy enough to do on Mac. If ...

Google Docs is a convenient and free way to get the basic functionality of the Microsoft Office suite of programs. It lets you create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in an online interface, ...

Depending on how an Adobe document was created, you may or may not be able to select and copy its text, but you can always copy a document's pictures, transferring them to your clipboard so you can ...