Paste from word into mail message, yosemite

In Yosemite, pasting from a Word document into a new mail message results in
missing chunks of text.  See screenshots of the two below (look at the 1st, 4th, 5th items).  I simply used command-V to paste.
Word 14.4.5, Mail.app 8.0

I also have this issue and currently nothing is fixing it.
I have tried using shift+alt+command+v to paste with no formatting but it makes no difference.
The only workaround seems to be either:
(1) posting to Text.app first
(2) posting into a rich text email and then converting it to plain text (may not work every time)
We're still left with the perennial Word/Mail issue of all the extra line breaks though.

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