Copying from Microsoft Word is a total mess.  Possible to preserve formatting?

What a disappointment.   I've got many pages all done up in MS Word 2007 and when I copy and paste it, its all centered, instead of just the top few lines like in MS Word.  Is there a way of making Dreamweaver read Word documents without making such a mess of them in the transfer process?  This is really astounding considering Word is the most commonly used word processor in the world I would think. If Dreamweaver can't read the most commonly used processor's output properly, what does it say about the designers?  Or perhaps I have a setting that is incorrect?  Hope so.

I agree 1000% (Yes, 1000%) with Nancy. But I'll go one further. DO NOT copy Word text into design view in DW if you want efficient web pages.
Word adds so much "conditional formatting" and inline styles that what should be a 3kb page ends up around 13-16kb or larger depending on just how much Word text you've copied and pasted.
Word is a word processor, Dreamweaver is an HTML editor. Two similar but different beasts. Use CSS to set things like headings, bylines and paragraph indents. If you don't know how to do those basic things in CSS, you need to stop right now and learn them or you will find that web design is a lot harder than you think it is.  This attempt at pasting a Word document into a window and expecting it to magicallly "become a web page" tells me you're just starting at web design. Every chef started as a cook. You need to learn at least how to walk before you take off running.
Check altweb (Nancy's site) and look up David Powers. They will both give you some very necessary information and advice on HTML and CSS BEFORE you endeavor to be a web designer.

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