When I copy and paste onto an email outlook does not keep source formatting. I have been through so many options screens. How do I keep the source formatting intact?

Anonymous
2023-05-01T15:00:25+00:00

When I copy and paste onto an email outlook does not keep source formatting. I have been through so many options screens. How do I keep the source formatting intact? For instance I'll copy an excel file and paste it and it only come out as plain text . This wasn't an issue until I came into work today.

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Anonymous
2024-05-03T20:05:00+00:00

Hey everyone,

I may have a small workaround that I just discovered. I tested it out twice, but it seems to have worked for me so far, please let me know if you also have success or not. So, I typically copy my messages in color similar to the one displayed by Ornelaks in this thread. I decided (out of random curiosity) to use the copy and paste function within outlook to see if it would paste and keep the color formatting.

The first two tries of using copy and paste, I used the keyboard shortcut and the left click of the mouse. THEN, I used the the copy and paste icon located in the top left corner of outlook to paste it, and VIOLA! It kept all the color in the formatting. I hope this is helpful to you all (until it stops working again), but let me know if this is helpful!

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-07-10T14:06:10+00:00

    I'm using outlook on the web on the desktop. There is no old/new outlook. We have what IT has given us.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-07-12T17:36:13+00:00

    YOU ARE A WIZARD!!!

    I have been reading through this thread with no luck on any comments about this issue (seems like all of us have been experiencing the same issue!) - I found your comment that was a different technique I had yet to try and it WORKED!!!!!!

    Thank you so so much for showing us the way!!

    I have to send the same EOD email but I have to add text to it in blue font and sometimes in red and for whatever reason, Outlook all a sudden stopped pasting the color text. So I have to individually go through and highlight every.single.line. in blue, without highlighting some other text in blue - so it has been a two-month-long nightmare.

    Anyone who is reading this persons comment - the past function they are showing in the photo did NOT show up for me in the regular email box (after you click the one you want to copy) - but my way around that was to expand the email in its own window (top right hand corner little arrow) and that then pulls the email out showing the copy/paste icon previewed above.

    Good luck working class!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-12T17:37:38+00:00

    It did not show it for me either but what I did was I pulled the email out that I wanted to PASTE in to its own window - then that function they showed in their comment appeared. For whatever stupid reason, it does not show up in the regular email box. Try expanding the email you want to work on and then it SHOULD appear....

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-12T17:55:12+00:00

    I just tried this. I did NOT work.

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