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At some point in history, rich text formatting was pretty uniform. Copying from word to textpad or outlook just worked.

You definitely wanted to keep what was in italics, bold, superscript and so on, so at least that made sense.

Then why not fonts and colors? From a word document to powerpoint, it makes sense to keep all the formatting.

What messed everything up is the web. You can’t paste anything into gmail without the formatting to be all screwed.

It’s annoying indeed.