That sounds like VIEW PARTIAL SOURCE on XP's right click (it's an addon.)
But if you just copy and paste, it doesn't bring ANY of the formatting with it; that's the trick; if you're going to use one formatting code, you have to do the WHOLE thing in code.
But if you just type it like you would in MS Word, then select, copy, and paste, it comes out looking just like this I'm typing now -- as I am using no codes.
It even works in the reply boxes; if you copy and paste a link to another article/thread, as long as you don't use any code, the link becomes live automatically.
Cool - I didn't know it had a "view source" addon.