Copying and Pasting into NotePad++ and preserving colours/Styles

Question

Does anyone know how to copy and paste some code into Notepad++ and preserve all the styles and colors of the pasted text?

Answer 1

Plain text does not have formatting.

What you are asking for is not possible.

If you mean that you are seeing colors/styles in one IDE, that's because the IDE "understands" the format and shows your the text in colors. This doesn't mean that the text itself has associated color.

Notepad++ has syntax highlighting for many languages/formats - select the appropriate one from the Language menu.

Some document formats do have color/styles (exmaples: RTF, HTML).