chemdraw - program can not be found

Question

when i want to edit a chemdraw file in word, i was offered to double click it to edit. however error occurs and says that the program can not be found. please help!

Answer 1

OK, so the file contains a valid Chemdraw image. Try editing the image in Chemdraw in a minor way, then copying the image back out of Chemdraw and pasting into Word.

I haven't used Chemdraw for many years, now, especially after Office 2008 killed round-tripping. Perhaps someone else will wade in, but doing just a little research it looks to me like the preferred method of interoperability is  copy-paste:

http://blog.officeformac.com/an-engineering-solution-for-copy-paste-interoperability-between-office-for-mac-and-chemdraw/

which seems to be corroborated by this review from May 2011:

http://forum.chem8.org/archiver/tid-56531.html

Also I'd think you'd have better luck over on Cambridge Software's site, where the proportion of Mac users is at least an order of magnitude higher than the proportion of posters on this site that use Chemdraw.

Answer 2

inow swith to english version of office but problem remains...

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Answer 3

your reply is rather silly! sure i own chemdraw and i can open it directly.

Answer 4

Silly question, perhaps, but do you own Chemdraw?

If so, can you open it directly?