Windows 10: Clipboard Losing Formatting

I am running Win 10 on several machines. On one of them only, when I copy (Ctrl-C), only the unformatted text gets onto the clipboard. It does not matter what app I am in at the time (I've tried Word, Firefox, Excel, etc.) and it is not related to the destination (Paste) app; the clipboard itself (examined with a viewer app) has not formatting, just text.
I have seen references to Skype causing issues but I do not have Skype installed.

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How do you copy and paste? what is a clipboard?

Clipboard is a temporary storage area in the memory (instead of disk drive), which can store images as well as text. To paste data from clipboard, use the Paste command (CTRL+V) which is supported by almost all applications and edit control boxes.

If the clipboard object is in text format, then open Notepad or any other text editor, and choose Paste. Note that to keep the source formatting intact (suppose you copy text from a website), you'll need to paste it in an editor that supports rich text capabilities..
like Microsoft Word. Pasting in Notepad strips off all the special text formatting.

If the clipboard object is an image, then open Paint (mspaint.exe), paste it and save the file.

 

view clipboard history

Hi,

Windows Systems do not save the clipboard history. There is only one item stored in the clipboard. If you copy something new the previous clipboard contents is overwritten and lost forever. To get the full microsoft clipboard history you need to use third-party
utilities.

We recommend Clipdiary clipboard manager. It remembers everything you copy: plain text and text with formatting (rtf), html, pictures and files.

Why do you need clipboard manager? What can you do with the microsoft clipboard history?

-Quickly copy data back to the clipboard.

-Paste any clip from the history directly to the selected application.

-Search for the necessary clip by its contents.

-Find out what program the data was copied from.

-Delete clips.

http://clipdiary.com/img/clipdiary.png

Please let me know, if that helps.

Kind Regards:

Engr. Malik Yasir

 

I tried searching also on the internet for you. I saw those few references to Skype too.

This is what I would do:
Apparently Skype has fixed this problem with their latest version.

1) I would install Skype from their website
2) After the installation completes, I would open two MS Word Documents
3) Type whatever in one of the Word documents, give it some special fancy formatting
4) Copy/Paste that to the other Word document. (cross my fingers to see if the solution is fixed.)
5) In either case (if it worked or not), I would uninstall Skype
6) Restart the computer
7) After restart, reopen two Word documents again
8) Do step 3 and 4 from above to make sure that Skype didn't somehow do this

 

Thanks for your research but that did not fix the problem. Any other thoughts?