Sometimes our technology is a little too helpful. I fight endless battles with Word trying to undo some formatting it has gotten when I pasted something in from a web page.
The little Firefox Copy Plain Text extension fixes this, adding a simple "Copy as Plain Text" option to the right-click menu.
Unless you're using a very old version of Word, isn't there a little icon at the bottom of the pasted text, giving you options such as..."Keep text only"...which ignores all formatting? There always is when I do a cut-and-paste or any other paste into Word 2000 or newer.
Posted by: walt | September 06, 2005 at 04:27 PM