There is, however, an old HTML editor of the 1990s: Arachnophilia. I still use it, as it adds tags for me (e.g. select text, then press Ctrl+I to emphasize). I copy-and-paste from Word, for example, to Arachnophilia: the formatting is preserved. Then, when I see bold text, I simply select the text in Arachnophilia and press Ctrl+B, etc.

Maybe Claudia can write such a useful plug-in.
“Plug it in, plug it in!” is a popular ad for air fresheners on American TV.

Peace be with you and this community!

I’m not aware of a plugin which is able to do this but this
doesn’t mean there isn’t one available.
The underlying scintilla control is responsible for doing, what it called, styling.
In order to make this work, one has to program a so called lexer.
This lexer is than responsible to set all the attributes, like font name, size, boldness …

What confuses me is this sentence you wrote

If I paste into: example word the formatting is retained.

What does that mean?

Cheers
Claudia