[9.6] Can I paste styled text from a word processor?

Text on the Mac is stored separately from style information. There is a standard Mac format for styled text, and this can be pasted into Director from the clipboard, but many word processing applications use their own proprietary formats and do not support copying of styled text. Text copied from such applications will lose its formatting.

The most notable application to support copying of styled text is Apple's SimpleText. ResEdit's styl/TEXT resource editor also supports copy and paste of styled text. (**** any other examples? ****)

[I don't presently have the info to provide a Windows answer for this...]

[ed note: Director 5 supports the importing of Rich Text Format (RTF), which most word processors can export files as.]