You can tell Word how to paste your text before you paste it, by using the Edit, Paste Special command. If you don't see this command on the Edit menu, click the down arrow at the bottom of the Edit menu. The full menu appears, including the Paste Special option.

Choose the Paste Special command. The Paste Special dialog box appears, which lists several options for pasting in the text: Document Object, Formatted Text, Unformatted Text, Picture, and so on. Each of these items tells Word how to paste in the information. To discover what each options does, select it from the list and read the description in the Result area of the dialog box.

For example, if you want to paste in some text from a Web page but don't want all that HTML-blah-blah formatting, choose the Unformatted Text option. Click OK, and the text is pasted into Word as plain text and not as some Web object.