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
    2020-04-10T05:42:44+00:00

    It was encouraging to see Microsoft Agents responding to the original poster. Then, the replies stopped making me wonder if that’s just MS’s way if saying “we don’t have an answer and aren’t working on a solution“.  

    I too find this issue annoying (and aggravating when I’m pressed for time), but they have us over a barrel because of OneNote’s other strengths.  Please Microsoft, help us out, show us your programming prowess and code an elegant fix.

     Thank you!

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-05T01:39:00+00:00

    Hey everybody!

    I would like to update the community if you have not already noticed, I'm not sure if OneNote provided an update, or if it came with the iOS update 13.1 but the copy and paste feature has been fixed!!

    Testing with it today if multiple lines of text including hard and soft returns would copy and paste over without converting into an HTML document, and it now pastes as plain text!

    I have not tested with rich text or images yet. Plan on doing that later. Will update you then. 

    Want to send a big, big thank you to all the support staff and programmers for fixing this feature.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-05T14:10:38+00:00

    Yes! Working for me as well. It's been a long time coming. Glad it's finally fixed.

    I had to update iOS to 13.4.1. I first had iOS 13.3.1, and it didn't work. My OneNote app is version 16.36, and has been for a couple weeks. 

    Again, with OneNote 16.36 it still didn't work when running iOS 13.3.1. I had to upgrade to iOS 13.4.1 with OneNote 16.36 for it to work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-05-05T15:56:58+00:00

    Likewise, great news and thank you Microsoft!

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-05-05T16:52:49+00:00

    Awesome!

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