Formatting is weird...

[Machiknight]

How best to cut and paste?

 

[Machiknight]

I have no idea what happened to the formatting...

 

[SkidAce]

I have no idea what happened to the formatting...

As a guess, you created the post in a word processor, and cut and pasted it into a post. Doing so retains the formatting (i.e. black or grey) and is hard to read on the black forum style.

Pasting it as text only should work.

 

[dave2008]

How best to cut and paste?

After you paste, simply remove the formatting with the remove format tool (AA w/ the X through it in the upper left corner). Then you can add back in the format you want from the available options.