"Apply Style to Clipboard" not retaining original font formatting in terms of bold/italic/etc

[peternlewis]

It depends on the target application and what format the styled text is in original and what the target application accepts. See:

Which applications accept pasting styled text…

I am using the standard idiom for styling the selected text, as shown (for example — there are others) in Inserting Styled Clipboard: Type the ⌘C Keystroke Apply Style to System Clipboard Type the ⌘V Keystroke Delete Past Clipboard 0 I have a number of macros that apply styles. I have been happily using them in TextEdit, but I have discovered that many (most?) applications don’t seem to accept pasted styled clipboards. A brief selection: Works: TextEdit Stickies Mail Doesn’t Work: Remin…

for a discussion on the many issues related to styled text and application handling of it.