If a document is not saved the rich text item can not be copied from another rich text field. The following code creates a copy of the currently opened document from a view with all of the contents from the rich text field.
Code: Dim wsp As New NotesUIWorkspace
Dim curruidoc As NotesUIDocument
Dim currdoc As NotesDocument
Dim ns As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim item1 As NotesItem
Set db=ns.CurrentDatabase
Set curruidoc=wsp.CurrentDocument
Set currdoc=curruidoc.Document
Set item1=currdoc.GetFirstItem("att")
Dim doc As New NotesDocument(db)
' create a new document in memory.
Call doc.ReplaceItemValue("Form", "MailAudit")
Dim rtf As NotesRichTextItem
Set rtf = New NotesRichTextItem(doc, "att")
'//for pasting attachmants
Set rtitem2 = currdoc.GetFirstItem( "att" )
Call doc.CopyItem( item1, "att" )
'//end of pasting
' make Notes complete cached rich text changes.
Call rtf.Update( )
Dim ws As New NotesUIWorkspace
Call ws.EditDocument(True, doc)
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This was first published in January 2005