Does NotchStar keep rich text formatting
NotchStar keeps the words you copy and drops the formatting. If you copy a bold, coloured paragraph from a web page or a document, the Clipboard tab stores it as plain text. Clicking the row puts the plain text back on the clipboard.
What is kept and what is lost
- Kept: the characters, spaces and line breaks.
- Lost: fonts, sizes, bold, italics, colours and links hidden behind words.
A link you copy by its address, such as one from the address bar, is kept in full, and shows a link icon.
A side effect you may want
Because the text goes back as plain text, pasting from the NotchStar list is a way to paste without formatting. Copy the formatted text, open Clipboard, click the row, and paste. The pasted text takes on the style of the place you paste into.
A side effect you may not want
If you need the formatting, paste straight after copying, before you click anything in NotchStar. Clicking a row replaces the clipboard with the plain version. NotchStar does not keep the formatted version.
Copies with text and an image
When one copy has both, NotchStar keeps the text and not the image. See images.
Limits
Two copies of the same words with different formatting count as one item, since only the characters are compared. See what copying twice does.
The tool is on the Clipboard feature page.
