Wanted: The Ultimate Copy and Paste

This morning my wife had an emergency with copying and pasting. She works online with a bunch of PC users, all of whom naturally use the panoply of MS products: Word, Internet Explorer, and Windows. Her assignment was to copy and paste dozens of web clippings into a Word doc, complete with formatting and links intact. Sounds easy, right? The Clipboard is a miracle of modern computing. As usual, things were harder than we thought. In Windows, since MS makes the whole widget (or buys it from some other poor sap and tacks it into their stuff), the Windows clipboard pulls everything into it. The Mac implementation of this process breaks down between the browser and MS Word for Mac. Go figure.

Copying from any and all browsers using a simple copy/paste didn't carry anything but text at the worst, formatting at best. There is, of course, Paste Special in Word. Unfortunately, you have to be able to copy RTF into the clipboard from the browser. The only browsers that will apparently pass RTF into the Mac clipboard? Safari (and Shiira, so I guess it's a webkit thing). This makes sense, as webkit is built by Apple, right? My wife's problem is that she doesn't like Safari. She uses Firefox. So my task is to find the perfect clipboard. iClip won't do it. Anyone know of anything better? Try copying some hyperlinked and formatted text out of Firefox and into Word. If the links carry over, we're in business, and I'm back in favor with the wife. Not that I'm out of favor, but I'm the guy that sold her on the whole Mac thing, and now her coworkers are giving her a hard time. I mean, copy and paste? We gotta fix this thing, she was close to getting some switchers!