Copy and Paste Text from OneNote mobile iOS app to the Messages App

Anonymous
2019-09-28T18:02:18+00:00

When I try to copy and paste text from the OneNote mobile iOS app to the Messages app, it pastes an HTML file with the text instead of only the text.  This is a new issue. In the past, I was always able to copy text from OneNote, and paste the text to the Messages app.  I cannot find any settings in the OneNote app or the Messages app that would seem to help.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-27T14:37:06+00:00

    Yeah, this is the only work around I have found.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-03-12T04:22:48+00:00

    I appreciate the suggestion about using share. I have observed it is limited to one paragraph or two lines of text (like an address, which in USA format is technically two paragraphs, but somehow it worked).

    this is helpful but still incredibly limiting. It is beyond frustrating that Microsoft hasn’t fixed this after years of complaints and feature requests. C’mon, man!

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-12T11:28:34+00:00

    Or at least let know that they are listening to us!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-13T15:57:52+00:00

    I also have the same issue and have received the same reply from Apple: that this is a Microsoft OneNote problem.

    If you highlight any text from a OneNote Page, select copy, then go to messages and past it in, it pastes a "File_####.html" file into the message.  It happens with contacts who are iMessage partners as well as those who are SMS.  When you try to open the html file, the text is teeny-tiny in the upper right corner of the screen, much to small to read.

    I have an iPhone 11 running IOS 13.3.1 and my version of the OneNote app is 16.35.1, which was just updated 2 days ago.  It did actually remove it and reinstalled it again today.  That did not fix the issue.

    It would be nice if you could fix this issue.

    Thanks.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-03-13T16:02:43+00:00

    I did not see that instead of selecting "Copy" directly, first selecting "Share..." then Copy from the list below the app icons will allow you to paste it into a text message as standard text.  So I can live with this until Microsoft fixes their software bug.

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