MacOS app. Copy/pasted text from word documents are pasted into chat as an attached image.

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Checked the VSCode extension - Same behaviour (actually also with Claude Code). Issue partially reflected in ChatGPT webapp (pasted both as text and image)

The Copilot chat feature in VSCode does NOT have the same behaviour, there text from Word is pasted only as text. It is thus not an universal issue of pasting from Microsoft Word for Mac.

Ran the issue through Codex, asked it to identify exact root cause and create a patch, replicating it with R/G tests first, and then create a summary document with details. Codex 5.3 claims to have identified and patched the issue at least, I have not verified implementation, but here is the summary document at least.

WORD_PASTE_ISSUE_SUMMARY.md

Not sure what side effects disabling the image copy override when there is a mixed image/text content in the clipboard might have, and if such a fix would need additional guardrails to be specific to whatever clipboard pattern word for mac employs in order to not break other pasting behaviour.

As of Version 26.324.21641 (1228) this issue is still present, and still annoying.

As of version 26.415.40636 (1799), it is still present. I assume there is some other use case that has led to the preference over pasted image than text when two are present, but can we at least adjust it in the settings of the Codex app? It is a significant annoyance for my usecases still.

As of version Version 26.429.61741 (2429), still present, and still annoying.

I can reproduce this consistently on macOS.

Additional details:

• Codex App version: 26.506.31421 (2620)
• Copying text from Microsoft Word into browser input fields works correctly.
• Copying the same text into IM/chat input fields also works correctly.
• Only Codex App pastes it as an attached image.
• I disabled "Include formatted text on Clipboard" in Word Preferences, but the issue still happens.
• Cmd + Shift + V also does not prevent Codex App from treating the pasted content as an image.

This suggests Codex App may be prioritizing an image/bitmap representation from the clipboard over the plain text representation

I can reproduce this too, and it is not limited to Word.

Environment:

• macOS: 26.2 (25C56)
• Codex App: 26.506.31421 (2620)
• Microsoft Word: 16.110
• Microsoft PowerPoint: 16.110

Behavior:

• Copying selected text from Word or PowerPoint into Codex pastes/attaches it as an image.
• This happens even when the copied content is actual selectable text, not a whole slide/object screenshot.
• Cmd+Shift+V and Cmd+Option+Shift+V do not force text paste in Codex.

Expected:

• If the clipboard contains a text/plain or rich text representation, Codex should prefer that for normal paste.
• Image paste should only win when the user is clearly pasting image-only content, or there should be a setting / paste option to choose text vs image.

This is still not fixed, we definitely need to fix, we dont need to copy as image and this is useless feature to be honest.

This is still not fixed, we definitely need to fix, we dont need to copy as image and this is useless feature to be honest.

It is in the web interface too, so I assume there is some kind of use-case where the current state is useful. I just can't imagine what that is, and why that is more important than this obvious and annoying problem.

Same here,