[dylan604]

wow, that's a big selection. after all, it's just text, right? or am i selling it short? I understand when Adobe notifies that the clipboard is large since it's rasterized (typically) image data. what in the world is in the buffer for Excel that size is pushing limts?

[bobbylarrybobby]

A lot of the time it's not just text, but rich text. For instance I'm pretty sure the font is preserved if you paste into a font-aware app.

[dylan604]

okay, but I have way more RAM than even the largest of font's I have encountered (and I've seen a few). also, what an absolute bozo way of doing things to include the font rather than the path to the font

[ookgfyhfg]

The Rich Text Format specifies the font of each word, etc. That is what the GP meant.

I don't think there is any implication that font files are being included with the data.

[dylan604]

Okay but then that's still text to describe how to write more text. How big can that be?