Thanks for the possible explanation. It sounds reasonable.
I'm going to do a little testing to see which applications allow preservation of formatting in copying and pasting. For example, I lose formatting when pasting text from other sources into Adobe InDesign, but when copying text from an InDesign document, formatting is preserved. Yet if I export the document as a PDF file and then copy text, I lose formatting.
When copying both to and from a Word 2004 (for Mac) document formatting is preserved.
I'm not sure what use knowing any of this will be, but I'm a "knowledge for knowledge's sake" kind of guy. Or maybe I just have too much free time!
Thanks again for your insight.
