need colors and other types of text formatting

[aparente001]

When I copy something in two colors from an email message, it gets pasted as plain text if I copied it from Thunderbird, and it gets pasted as formatted text if I copied it from my browser gmail.  What settings or procedure can I use to get formatted text when I'm copying from Thunderbird?  Thank you.

[tomos]

This is actually related to Thunderbird. I dont know why, but it just copies plain text - and I dont know if that can be changed.

I did do a basic search, but kept getting results about pasting plain text *into* Tbird. Hopefully someone else can help.