Okay, I confess that I'm posting this having never used the OSX version of MS Office, but in the Windoze version, when you have a bunch of text to paste in, it gives you the option of "plain text" or "unicode text" -- does the OSX version do this as well? I'm guessing if it does you already tried, but see how each one works for you...that might be the key to getting the stuff to paste properly.