Copy and Paste from OneNote as an image not text

Shift + Ctrl V will paste as text instead of an image.

That does work - I was just hoping to have a more complete solution, one that didn't require me to copy and paste everything into notepad before coping and pasting it anywhere else, such as into a web form or the like. 

Me too! This pasting into Notepad to get the text is a real problem. There must be a way to copy just the text, similar to the paste where you can select which formatting , source, destination, or plain text, you want. This problem comes up any time you go to paste into an application that understands "text with formatting" but doesn't allow the formatting to be stripped off as most Office applications do.

I use Evernote mostly these days just because I can copy from Evernote to other applications, where OneNote makes that simple function almost impossible.

OneNote would be my normal choice but this formatting issue keeps me a loyal Evernote user. Fix this and I'll renew my subscription to Office 365 for sure. Right now it's not guaranteed.

Further research indicates that this is not a bug at all, at least not in OneNote. OneNote under Windows, can put both text and images on the clipboard at the same time. I did a quick VB app and can see this and work around it by clearing the image from the clipboard and leaving only the text.

The target application is the one responsible for pasting either the text or the image into the current document. Unfortunately, most applications choose the image (DIB) rather than the text and this is the issue, not OneNote, which after all is just trying to be helpful.

Things like Notepad are unable to copy/paste images so they work only with text. Office applications give options when you paste. Most other applications just paste the image assuming I guess that the image is more important.

OneNote needs a "Copy" process similar to the "Paste" process. The user selects what format (if both are possible) to copy and although this introduces the occasional extra step, it would cure the issue.

This would be helpful if I were coping from a picture but I'm not.  If I type in text and then try to copy that text to paste it somewhere else it copies it as if it were a picture, but it should be just straight text.

That does work - I was just hoping to have a more complete solution, one that didn't require me to copy and paste everything into notepad before coping and pasting it anywhere else, such as into a web form or the like.

Shift + Ctrl V will paste as text instead of an image. 

. . . only if the destination program uses "Shift-Ctrl-V" and only sometimes. Evernote for instance uses that sequence to retrieve text without formatting, but for a clipboard that came from OneNote, "Shift-Ctrl-V" does nothing. "Ctrl-V" gets the image. Word (I used Word 2007 to test) can retrieve and format in its regular fashion (Source, Dest,  or Merge.)

This and the ever so painfully slow syncing is why I had to move to Evernote for the bulk of my stuff. I needed the text from notes rather than images of the text and I didn't have the time to wait for OneNote to sync. Evernote was taking under a second to sync a change that OneNote was taking 10 minutes at.

I still use OneNote, but only for stuff I want to make really pretty, as ON has far better formatting abilities than EN, perhaps because if its use of images rather than text.