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Written by abadidea on 2025-01-28 at 11:08

Turns out that if you copy text from OneNote and paste it into something that can accept either text or images, it decides you must want a bitmap rendering of your text. I pasted the text into this posting box and got the image, then pasted it again into the image's alt text and got text. Incredible. 0/10 ux, principle of least astonishment maximally violated

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Written by Charlotte 🦝 :therian: on 2025-01-28 at 11:18

@0xabad1dea i have seen this with libreoffice calc, if you paste it into telegram it pastes an image but if you cancel out of that it will give you a TSV

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Written by Charlotte 🦝 :therian: on 2025-01-28 at 11:23

@0xabad1dea i think the way this works is that clipboards can actually have several different content types in it at the same time, and libreoffice copies cells in a ton of different formats

some applications let you choose which content type you want to paste as (most notably the typical paste/paste without formatting confusion) but generally it seems to be incredibly undiscoverable

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Written by Charlotte 🦝 :therian: on 2025-01-28 at 11:24

@0xabad1dea oh yeah just checked it with discord

it will pick the first supported content type which is image/png

if you however cannot paste image/png there it will go all the way down to presumably text/plain

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Toot

Written by Charlotte 🦝 :therian: on 2025-01-28 at 11:26

@0xabad1dea anyways in the most undiscoverable way possible, if you just want to paste the text without formatting ctrl+shift+v will do it

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Written by Kagan MacTane on 2025-01-28 at 15:21

@charlotte @0xabad1dea

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