Inline images are lost when copying them to a RDP session

Question

Observed behavior:

• Copy some text including an embedded image from an email in Outlook to the clipboard
• Paste the clipboard content to a RDP session into Word
• the text is pasted, the image itself is not visible, instead an empty box appears where the image should appear
• if I copy the image separately, so it is the only object being copied it actually works

I tried to figure out what went wrong, however most RDP problems refer to the Clipboard not working at all. Recommendations are to enable the clipboard (check) and to restart rdpclip.exe - which I did not expecting to resolve the problem.

Update

Even more surprising is the fact that some applications understand the clipboard, others do not. So I started to read the clipboard data using a simple c# program. The issue seems to be that the clipboard is filled with several formats: Text, RTF, HTML and others.

Non surprisingly text format does not contain image data. HTML however contains a file link to a local resource - which does not exist (nor is it accessible) from the remote desktop.

So what happens is that some applications read the HTML (apparently MS Word does) and insert a broken image. Others however read the RTF (WordPad for instance) which seems to come with the raw image data, so it can be inserted.

Now the question changes to: "Can I tell an application like Word to use another clipboard format?" I can imagine this is possible via other tools or plugins, but maybe someone knows a native solution.