However, I suspect that implementing such a thing would break a fair number of programs, and possibly in surprising ways. There is an event available to notify such a monitor of new content on the clipboard. In principle a program could be written that monitors the clipboard for new content and flattens any non-text content to just plain text. Others pick a preferred format by default but provide a UI for choosing among alternatives that can be understood by that application. Notepad) will only accept one particular format (such as plain text) and simply do nothing if that format is not available. The application that processes a Paste operation then has the option to choose the data format that best suits it. The clipboard contains a list of formats in which the data is available, and if the application chooses to do so, the data itself in some of those formats. It is effectively a clearing house where any application can list the data that was just copied (or cut) and offer it up to any application (including itself) to be pasted.
The issue is that the Windows clipboard does not have to store the data.
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