cut & paste operation changes font size & style

[MJ]

When performing a cut & paste operation of a news article from a page like this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3783869.stm

into a new Outlook XP email message, the font sizes and styles are changed. Is there a
way to maintain the original as it appears? This only happens with some newspapers - I
don't know why. TIA

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

they probably use css to control formatting - if so, I don't think you can
control it unless the paste tag has an option to keep original formatting
and it does...

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[Guest]

I have a very similar experience when copy and pasting (ctrl C - ctrl V) from a draft email (I use drafts for lots of boilerplate) into a reply. Perhaps this only happens when the reply is in html format. If I'm replying to an html email can I change the reply format to rich text? Might that make a difference?