# Copy-paste button screws up formatting

**URL:** <https://community.pickaxe.co/t/copy-paste-button-screws-up-formatting/4910>\
**Category:** Bugs / Site Issues\
**Created:** [March 24, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/copy-paste-button-screws-up-formatting/4910 "2025-03-24T11:02:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sumergoconicio](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/sumergoconicio/32/1710_2.png) [@sumergoconicio](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/sumergoconicio)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/copy-paste-button-screws-up-formatting/4910/1 "2025-03-24T11:02:26Z")

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If I manually select text and copy-paste in my notepad, it looks like this:

 ![20250324-11.59.58 - 20250324115202 BII Climate Risk Toolkit brainstorming - 42 - Obsidian v1.8.9 008748@2x](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/uploads/pickaxeproject/original/2X/a/a8644a954868b865da5288e42f8bde94b4ca9f1b.png)

vs

If I press the copy-paste icon and paste it in my notepad, it looks like this:

 ![20250324-12.01.04 - 20250324115202 BII Climate Risk Toolkit brainstorming - 42 - Obsidian v1.8.9 008750@2x](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/uploads/pickaxeproject/original/2X/2/2f9ae878625ce891b1976080336556791c4fab12.png)

Needless to say, I prefer the first version in terms of formatting.

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**Author:** ![stephenbdiaz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/stephenbdiaz/32/4023_2.png) [@stephenbdiaz](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/stephenbdiaz)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/copy-paste-button-screws-up-formatting/4910/2 "2025-07-28T20:44:53Z")

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Adding a “me too” here instead of a new thread on this one 🙂