Can't "paste and match style" from a mac into codex so you can't paste from word

Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jun 15, 2026 by jamesdmeyer21

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Version 26.609.41114

What subscription do you have?

Pro

What platform is your computer?

Mac

What issue are you seeing?

019ecb30-c7ef-7443-ba86-d219653a2341

If you try to paste from word on the Mac Codex views that paste as an image not as text and you don't have pay style option in Codex, so it can't read the text. Kind of kind of major :-)

CODEX Response to the problem
Yes, agreed. If the same Cmd-C from Word pastes correctly into TextEdit, then Word is almost certainly putting valid text on the macOS clipboard. That means the failure is in Codex Desktop’s paste intake or priority order, not in Word and not in your copy action.
What seems to be happening:
• Word places multiple clipboard representations on copy: text, rich text, HTML, maybe PDF/image.
• TextEdit chooses a text-compatible representation, so it works.
• Codex Desktop is receiving or selecting the image representation instead.
• The image representation is rendering as a black/transparent PNG, so I see an unreadable attachment instead of the selected words.
That’s a serious usability bug because “copy text from Word into chat” is a basic path.
The bug report should emphasize this exact comparison:
On macOS, copying highlighted text from Microsoft Word and pasting into Codex Desktop inserts a PNG image attachment instead of text. The same clipboard content pastes correctly as editable text into TextEdit. Codex appears to prefer an image/PDF clipboard flavor over available text/RTF/HTML flavors. Expected behavior: when clipboard contains text, Codex should paste text, not an image attachment.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Feedback ID: 019ecb30-c7ef-7443-ba86-d219653a2341

What is the expected behavior?

CODEX excepts the paste As text or at least it's smart enough to look at the different options and figure out whether it really is an image or text

Additional information

eedback ID: 019ecb30-c7ef-7443-ba86-d219653a2341

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