# Toad for Oracle 12.11.0.3 Beta - Cannot Copy and Paste Color Syntax Highlighting

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**Category:** Toad for Oracle - Beta\
**Created:** [October 31, 2016, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-for-oracle-12-11-0-3-beta-cannot-copy-and-paste-color-syntax-highlighting/38582 "2016-10-31T08:52:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![jay.rasmussen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jay.rasmussen](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/jay.rasmussen)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-for-oracle-12-11-0-3-beta-cannot-copy-and-paste-color-syntax-highlighting/38582/1 "2016-10-31T08:52:46Z")

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In Toad for Oracle 12.7, when you copy a selection of code from the Toad editor window and paste it into another Windows application like Microsoft Word, the color syntax highlighting from Toad is preserved and will appear in the pasted text. When you copy a code selection from the editor window in the Toad for Oracle Beta, the color syntax highlighting is lost and the code gets copied over to Microsoft Word as plain black text.

When I tested this, I had Toad for Oracle 12.7 and the Toad beta both installed on the same computer. Only Toad for Oracle 12.7 copies over color text.

I have found it very useful to copy code with the color syntax highlighting from Toad into emails or presentations.

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**Author:** ![mstaszew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/mstaszew/32/23_2.png) [@mstaszew](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/mstaszew)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-for-oracle-12-11-0-3-beta-cannot-copy-and-paste-color-syntax-highlighting/38582/2 "2016-10-31T08:56:17Z")

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Enable the option to copy text in rich text format on Editor|Behavior page in Options. It defaults to unchecked now because it hinders performance with large text selections.

Michael

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**Author:** ![jay.rasmussen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jay.rasmussen](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/jay.rasmussen)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 9:15am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-for-oracle-12-11-0-3-beta-cannot-copy-and-paste-color-syntax-highlighting/38582/3 "2016-10-31T09:15:47Z")

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Thank you for your help Michael.

After I changed the rich text setting in the Toad beta I was able to copy over color text.