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I am trying to copy and paste from one email to another and outlook will not keep the format. This is the new outlook app so there is no File tab like suggested in every other answer.
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Adding onto this. Extremely annoying that Microsoft decided the copy-paste behavior for new Outlook will be "Paste text and merge format" without giving us a way to customize the default. Huge oversight on Microsoft's part that I hope they fix soon.
There is a 'solution' of sorts which would be near on IMPOSSIBLE to work out without this thread, however the solution only works as long as I don't make any changes to the text or hit the backspace key. As soon as I do that all the formatting disappears again. (Using Outlook for web). It's super frustrating having to reformat every time!
@microsoft - you broke it, you fix it. sort it out!
Go ahead and hit paste, and then at the bottom of all that you pasted (in the wrong format) there is a little clipboard that you hover over
So far the "ctrl" option is working for me but it is a pain having to do it every time.
5 months later, huh. LOL