New Outlook APP Does not keep formatting when copy and pasting into another email

In my instance then I'd be creating a new thread when I want to keep the original and just make colored annotations. Sometimes throughout the week I can have a couple colors added to the original body. I hope they just fix it.

Everyone is recommending "work arounds".....why don't they just fix it and you wouldn't need a work arounds....frustrating.

I have the same issue! It was working just fine with the new outlook for a couple of weeks and now all of the sudden it will not copy and paste anything correctly. It keeps reverting it to plain text.

I've found (another) workaround for this problem. If (like me) you have one or more template-styled emails you keep in a folder so you can reuse them often, and you've found the copy/paste function has suddenly stopped carrying all the formatting from the original "template" email, follow these steps:

1. Right click on your template (original) email.
2. Select "Copy to Folder" and select your Drafts folder.
3. Open your Drafts folder, locate the new copy and edit it.

In this manner, you can reuse a template-styled email and retain all the formatting, including all recipients you may have added to the To, CC, or BCC fields.

Using the current version of Outlook online, in the current version of Chrome, via outlook.office.com/mail:

If you select this text in an email in the Sent folder (or any other folder):

[Red Text In Bold, Green Text In Italic, Black Text In Standard]

then hit Ctrl+C (or right click and select Copy from the popup menu) to copy the text to the clipboard,

then click on the New mail button to open a new email,

then hit Ctrl+V (or right click and select Paste from the popup menu, because THERE IS NO "PASTE SPECIAL" OPTION) in the new email,

This is the text which is copied to the new email:

[Red Text In Bold, Green Text In Italic, Black Text In Standard]

Do you understand now what people are saying in this thread? If text (or tables, or bullet point/ordered lists, or Heading) are copied in one email and either pasted elsewhere into that SAME email or pasted into a new email, THE FORMATTING OF THAT TEXT IS NOT COPIED. In the current version of Outlook, Ctrl+V now behaves as if it were Ctrl+Shift+V, and the text is automatically formatted according to the basic formatting template of the destination document.

THIS IS EXTREMELY ANNOYING AND RE-APPLYING THAT LOST FORMATTING IS AN ENORMOUS WASTE OF TIME, and we would like Microsoft to fix it.