Hi Matt,
I'm sorry to hear that you are having issues with Rich Text fields and feeling frustrated with how they function when images are involved. I have in the past been able to copy and paste text and images from for example other Rich Text fields or something like Sharepoint and the images get translated over, is there a specific browser you are seeing this issue on or with specific types of media? When it comes to hosting images in general for use in QB we do recommend hosting them either somewhere on the net you know is a reliable address for it (for example a website your company maintains) or within QB since that usually provides the best experience but Rich Text fields do have some ability to host images when copy and pasting but it isn't universal to all sources.
If you would like the Rich Text fields to be more robust in their support of images, and in particular if you have an example of exactly how you would like it to function, I would definitely recommend submitting that as feedback to our User Voice. User Voice is a tool our Product team uses to help track user interest in enhancements. The Quick Base User voice can most easily be accessed from the My Apps page in Quick Base by clicking on the orange Feedback tab that appears on the right of the page or at
http://quickbase.uservoice.com by signing in with your Quick Base credentials. Thank you for your feedback Matt and certainly let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
If you do post up a User Voice suggestion I would recommend dropping a link to it here in this thread so that other community members can add their votes.
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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