User`s guide

Integrating Mac OS X and Your Virtual Machine 167
Working With Objects
For closer integration between Mac OS X and your Windows guest OS, Parallels Desktop
provides the possibility to copy and paste formatted text and pictures and drag and drop files
between Mac OS X and the virtual machine operating system.
Note: To use these functionalities, you should have Parallels Tools (p. 97) installed in the virtual
machine and the Isolate Mac from Windows option disabled in the Security pane (p. 179).
Copying and Pasting Formatted Text
When you work with your Mac and Windows-based virtual machines side by side, you may
need to copy and paste text between them.
Parallels Desktop allows you to copy and paste text of any size between Mac and Windows
applications. This text can be italic/bold/underlined, it can be of various colors/fonts/sizes and
contain spaces.
You can copy and paste text from:
 Mac OS X applications to the virtual machine applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Notepad,
Wordpad, etc)
 the virtual machine applications to Mac OS X applications (TextEdit, Safari, Mozilla
Firefox, MS Office for Mac, etc)
Copying and Pasting Pictures
When you work with your Mac and virtual machines side by side, you may need to copy and
paste different pictures between them.
Parallels Desktop allows you to copy and paste pictures between Mac and Windows picture or
graphic editors.
Dragging and Dropping Files
Close integration of Mac and Windows-based virtual machines allows you to drag and drop
different files between them.