Copy and paste in Mail problem

I've had the same issue for about 6 months and am VERY frustrated with Apple for not resolving this simple, simple issue.

Here's a workaround that works on my system using Lion.

Copy the text block in the email you want to edit and paste it down below your signature block. Then copy paste text from outside of mail that you want to add. Next cut your newly assembled block from below the signature and paste back in above the signature. Painful, but it works.

I also have had this problem since this summer.

So far the "paste and match style" seems to work most of the time (some times it goes waky too).

I submitted a bug report via: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html and I included this forum's URL in my comments.

The more people who submit bug reports the more likely they will actually do something about it.

Same issue here, but it happening in Notes within Macmail. That is, I try and paste from the clipboard, and it appears above the paragraoh in which I am trying to paste. Frustrating. Even pasting below the intended text, then using the forward delete function (fn-delete) results in the same problem.. text ends up above the text I am trying to join together.

What a ridiculous problem. I came after years of MS frustration, only to find Apple frustration. My mail not only has the cut and paste problem (snow leopard) but also the unknown and unreliable font problem.

Apple has $billions sitting around, I know that hiring just one good software engineer would go a long way here. Good luck Apple, if MS ever gets their act together (I can dream).

It's always disheartening to find a thread discussing a problem I have (yea!) only to see that it started over a year ago and is still unsolved. Sigh....

I, too, am experiencing this problem and have been experiencing it since I shifted to Lion in October 2011. Among many other issues with MacMail, including messages jumping back into mailboxes after I move them and the unreliable font problem and the random signature issues. I don't have constant internet access, and having a program to read and respond to email offline is crucial. I also don't understand why Apple, with such a well-designed OS, has such problems designing a simple Mail program.

Submit bug reports, people.

FYI, I have the problem even copying and pasting even fragments of text within a paragraph of an email, and it seems totally random.

My two cents, though--if I convert to plain text, I can move the text block to where I want and it doesn't jump. Once I have the raw text in the correct place, I can convert back to rich text. I don't need rich text for my purposes, so I tend to just leave my emails plain text. What all of it does to my signature, I have no idea, and I'm not sure I want to know. They're probably being changed to 24-point bright red Comic Sans in my professional emails.

Edit > Paste and Match Style is a possible workaround.

The Keyboard Shortcut is Command+Option+Shift+V

I work on Safari and Max OS 10.6 - Snow Leopard and have used this quick work around to get my copy / paste to behave.

I use TextEdit for all my writing but if this text jumping or paste into mail problem occurs - which it does occasionally -

Copy text and paste into MSWord first, then copy from Word and paste into my document or Mail.

No problemo! 🙂

Count me in the CUT&PASTE bug problem and it is not a new one!

Among many other issues with MacMail, including messages jumping back into mailboxes after I move them and the cut & paste bug, and the pasted paragraphs having a hard return on every line. It seems like it would be a simple fix for these problems but .... not happening. I think I posted a bug report on the issues over a year ago. Still no fix.

Good God, this has been going on for years, has been characterized, corroborated, and reported by thousands of users all over the internet, and yet when you call Apple today to report it, they still act like this a new issue!

Considering Apple was first to commercialize C&P to the computer industry back in the '70s (when they "appropriated" it from the Xerox PARC prototype GUI), and had perfected it the first few decades of its existence, you'd figure that by now if they could do anything right at all, it's C&P. The fact that they've broken even THAT makes one wonder what else has gone astray under the hood.

I also notice on 10.7 that there's a bug when you want to indent a paragraph (ie, with Command-]) where under certain circumstances if the first line has a colon in it, the characters after the colon will jump to another line!

Apple please, just FIX the darn thing already!

hi, I too couldn't copy and paste an email {maverick imac) and I clicked on the email to highlight it, then clicked and dragged it to "notes" it worked so I suppose it might anywhere

Hope it helps