Copy & Pasting text attributes problem

I'm pasting some text from a word doc into Motion from a series of quotes. I set up a look that I'd like to keep for each paragraph, but every time I paste the text it reverts back to the font, size & color of the Word doc text.
Is there a way to avoid this? I just updated to Motion 4. It was never an issue in Motion 3, and I didn't see anything in preferences. It seems tedious to have to reset all of the settings for every time I paste the text in.
thanks!

Rich Text formatting is fully supported in Motion 4. You'll need to establish your formatting carefully in Word.
I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not but it seems to have been very high on the requested features for the new rev.
this might help, scroll down to see the Motion 4 movies, one of which is about text:
http://www.rippletraining.com/provideoapps.html
bogiesan

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