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Copy a cell from Google sheet containing text with both normal and bold text to GMail causes entire text with bold

  1. Open Google Sheets
  2. Put the text "Normal Bold" in a cell
  3. Copy the cell and paste in Gmail

Actual : Entire cell is bold

Expected : Same as cell in Google sheets

Note : This behavior is bad in case one had a Sheet table to copy, which might have different formatting in different cells...

Solution

  • This appears to be a bug!

    Unfortunately Stack Overflow isn't the right forum to post issues in Google products.

    You can however report this directly to Google by following the menu path Help > Report a problem directly from the Google Sheets interface when viewing a sheet. A pop-up will appear entitled Send feedback, in which you can describe this issue.

    Workaround:

    In the mean time - if you double click the cell and copy the text rather than copying the whole cell, the typographical emphasis is kept in the same way - the text Normal Bold copies over to Gmail with only the word 'Bold' in bold.

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