Pasting from Microsoft Outlook

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Hi all,

I just hit an issue when trying to paste text from Microsoft Outlook into a forum post - the text was visible in the window when I was writing, but when I posted, it disappeared and only the text I had typed was visible.

The issue appears to be tied to formatting info that came from the Microsoft application. When I removed all formatting from the text by pasting it into a plain text file and then copying that unformatted text, pasting in to a forum post worked as expected (but I lost hyperlinks and formatting).

Any suggestions? (Other than just avoiding annoying Microsoft bloatware?)

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Not sure if your OS/browser combo allows it, but for me with Firefox on Linux I sometimes have to right click ā†’ Paste Without Formatting when applications are behaving like that. Obviously that doesnā€™t solve the losing formatting issue! But at least you skip the plain text middle stepā€¦

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@edoddridge can you try pasting something into a reply in this topic that replicates the behaviour? Then I can examine the entrails and see if I can work out the issue.

And just checking, this is from the Microsoft Outlook program, not the web interface? What OS are you using?

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@Aidan absolutely. Iā€™ve just copied your reply from the email notification and will paste it below.

And just checking, this is from the Microsoft Outlook program, not the web interface? What OS are you using?

Thatā€™s right, Using Microsoft Outlook as a standalone program, not the web interface. Mac OS Sequoia 15.5.

| Image | Aidan Aidan Heerdegen, ACCESS-NRI Release Team Lead
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@edoddridge can you try pasting something into a reply in this topic that replicates the behaviour? Then I can examine the entrails and see if I can work out the issue.

And just checking, this is from the Microsoft Outlook program, not the web interface? What OS are you using?

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And again within the quote environment:

| Image | Aidan Aidan Heerdegen, ACCESS-NRI Release Team Lead
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@edoddridge can you try pasting something into a reply in this topic that replicates the behaviour? Then I can examine the entrails and see if I can work out the issue.

And just checking, this is from the Microsoft Outlook program, not the web interface? What OS are you using?

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:confused:
I guess, good news that it worked here, but I donā€™t know why it failed in the COSIMA announce thread.

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Yes it does include a lot of ā€œstuffā€ but itā€™s relatively clean/free of unnecessary formatting.

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And just checking, this is from the Microsoft Outlook program, not the web interface? What OS are you using?

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It looks like UTas uses mimecast to protect against phishing and other nefarious link based attacks, so links are directed through their services.

ANU uses outlooks safe links and it is much more verbose:

* **REMINDER:** Ocean Sciences abstract submissions [now open](https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.agu.org%2Focean-sciences-meeting%2Fpresent%3Futm_source%3DOSM26_abstracts_email_1_general_7.15.25%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Doms26_abstracts_1_general_cta%26mkt_tok%3DOTg3LUlHVC01NzIAAAGbrjmL87DtnWfmmovh-E5ZvPA3Z3eUhBzACLbyv4w6-knVNo5WIYtV0W01GFVpCSNn30esQFJQEqh36_phIWFQWZzKoPnCiuWy-trk0bJtWQ%23overview&data=05%7C02%7Caidan.heerdegen%40anu.edu.au%7C0e78ada259b0482d207808ddd4a20e5a%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C638900514718379883%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=f0os4dZZYXM9PBChQ%2B55GmnV8pheiaeQKdk9ya%2B%2BqFs%3D&reserved=0).

If you have the same problem again let us know, but as a work-around you could try copying smaller blocks of text to help identify the problem.

Sorry I canā€™t be of more help.

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OK, thanks Aidan. One last go at pasting the text that was initially problematic. If that doesnā€™t show any issues, then I guess Iā€™ll chalk it up to bad luck and move on.

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Are you pasting into markdown or formatted text?

Maybe thereā€™s some funky code in the formatted that you can make visible in the markdown to suss out what might be going on?

Screenshot 2025-08-07 at 2.35.53 pm

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Interesting! I was pasting into formatted text. Will have a go here into markdown.

Dear all,

Please join us for a seminar by Prof Sung Yong Kim from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) at 11 am on Wednesday 13 August. The seminar will be held in a hybrid format, in CSIROā€™s Freycinet Meeting Room and online via Teams (link below).

Title : Submesoscale surface geophysical turbulence: Energy spectra and fluxes

Time : 11am, Wednesday, 13 August

Location : CSIRO Freycinet Room (next to CSIRO reception) and online via Teams (link below)

Abstract : This talk presents submesoscale surface geophysical turbulence studies, focusing on energy spectra and energy fluxes, based on remotely sensed observations such as altimetry, geostationary ocean color imagery, and high-frequency radars at the O(1)-km spatial resolution and O(1) hour temporal resolution. The dynamics of surface currents are governed by tides, winds, the Coriolis force, low-frequency pressure gradients (less than 0.4 cycles per day), and nonlinear interactions among these forces. The kinetic energy spectra of the surface currents in the wavenumber domain (k) become steeper at a scale of approximately 10 km from a slope of k -5/3 to slopes between k -2 and k -3 at a length scale of 2 km. Moreover, the energy spectra of chlorophyll exhibit anisotropy associated with bathymetric effects and regional circulation, and their decay slopes change from k-5/3 to k-1 at scales of O(10) km and from k-1 to k-3 at scales of O(1) km, which is consistent with the two-dimensional quasi-geostrophic turbulence theory. The spectral decay slopes of these energy spectra show weak seasonality, which can be interpreted by the baroclinic instability in the weak seasonal mixed layer and the persistent and non-seasonal regional circulations.

Bio : Prof. Kim received his B.S. in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from Seoul National University (1999) and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego (2009). He leads the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, where his research spans environmental fluid dynamics, airā€‘sea and airā€‘seaā€‘land interaction processes, coastal circulation, mesoscale and sub-mesoscale turbulence, and integrated ocean observing systems, often leveraging bigā€‘data analysis and machineā€learning methods.

If you are interested in meeting with Prof Kim next week, please feel free to contact me xuebin.zhang@csiro.au, or him directly via email: syongkim@kaist.ac.kr

Regards,

Xuebin Zhang

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Nice workaround @jemmajeffree!

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Seriously, that worked?? I nearly didnā€™t post because I thought the odds were so low and itā€™s kinda ridiculous

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