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This is the rare case of Microsoft Word behavior leaking into macOS with predictably terrible results.
by baggy_trough 3y ago
This is the rare case of Microsoft Word behavior leaking into macOS with predictably terrible results.
- layer8 3y agoNo, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38142158 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38142158 for the bigger picture. And Microsoft Word actually provides menus both before and after pasting allowing to choose how the styling of the pasted content should be handled.
- Someone1234 3y agoMacWrite on the Macintosh in the mid-1980s supported copying [some] format information like bold/italics. Word did introduce more complex format information (RTF) in the early 1990s but both Microsoft and Apple advanced this area with arguably Apple themselves originating it.
- flenserboy 3y agoStill trying to understand why even the unformatted text option in Word often doesn't produce unformatted text — I've seen too many times where column & margin information carries along even when font styling does not, & there's no good way to get rid of it without starting an entirely new Word document.