How to paste from Word and retain formating

My co-worker and I are both running Dreamweaver. However for
some reason I can copy and paste from Word into Dreamweaver and
retain the formatting (bold/italic etc) but she can not. I've done
searches on this board and online in general but haven't found
anything about this issue. Keep in mind that we are not importing
HTML from word, just basic cutting and pasting. The paragraph
returns are retained but the bold/italic formatting is lost. We
don't need the styles to come through (and would rather they not
-they tend to corrupt the html-it get's all wonky) just the
formatting.
I'm sure it's something silly like a preference in Word or
Dreamweaver but we can't seem to find it, or any one else who is
having the same issue.
Our next step is to reinstall Dreamweaver to see if that may
clear the issue...
Any thoughts?

In DW 8 try PASTE SPECIAL. It gives you options for how much
or how little
formatting you want to retain when you paste.
MD
Scimino wrote:
> My co-worker and I are both running Dreamweaver. However
for some
> reason I can copy and paste from Word into Dreamweaver
and retain the
> formatting (bold/italic etc) but she can not. I've done
searches on
> this board and online in general but haven't found
anything about
> this issue. Keep in mind that we are not importing HTML
from word,
> just basic cutting and pasting. The paragraph returns
are retained
> but the bold/italic formatting is lost. We don't need
the styles to
> come through (and would rather they not -they tend to
corrupt the
> html-it get's all wonky) just the formatting.
>
> I'm sure it's something silly like a preference in Word
or
> Dreamweaver but we can't seem to find it, or any one
else who is
> having the same issue.
>
> Our next step is to reinstall Dreamweaver to see if that
may clear
> the issue...
>
> Any thoughts?

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