How do you retain text formatting when pasting into Pages?

Hi
I often copy and paste text into and out of emails. But whenever I paste into Pages it removes all the emboldening or italicisation. Once pasted, the text is all in one style (the one selected when I hit paste).
Generally there is too much text for me to comb through and find each instance. Is there a setting in Pages that I can change to prevent this happening?
I'm using Pages version 5.2.2 on iOS 10.9.4.
Thanks.

On Mavericks 10.9.5, I created some Rich Text in the email compose window. I copied this text to the clipboard. Pressing command+V in TextEdit or Pages v5.2.2 deposits the original Rich Text in the respective application document. No monochrome for me.
From Mail 7.3
To TextEdit 1.9
To Pages v5.2.2

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