Paste Special from Word, nothing pasting in

I'm trying to paste into DW some word paragraphs. I'm doing the paste special to retain paragraphs, edit paste special, but nothing is pasting in.

I use a Mac, with Microsloth Word 12.3.6 (Office 2008). Any text that you copy directly into the code portion of Dreamweaver (and I have tested this with both CS3 and CS 5.5) will come in as plain text. Of course, you need to add paragraph marks to it, but you can do that one of two ways:
Copy the text in Word.
Go to the insert point you want to go to in Code view (or in the code box in Split view)
Paste the text; it will come in without Word formatting.
Select a paragraph of text.
Press [F5] to refresh
In the Properties panel (below your website working area) in the Format selector, choose Paragraph.
Or,
Copy the text in Word.
Go to the insert point you want to go to in Code view (or in the code box in Split view)
Paste the text; it will come in without Word formatting.
For each paragraph, in Code view, type "<p>" to begin each paragraph and go to the end of the paragraph and type "</" (Dreamweaver will automatically close the open paragraph tag).
Press [F5] to refresh.
This does work on Macintosh. I believe it may also work in Windows.

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