Hi Guy
I think we've been talking about two different things here.
Word doesn't regard a paragraph mark as "formatting". Word thinks a
paragraph mark is just another character, like an A or an 8. So when you
copy from OE to Word, you're pasting letters and numbers and paragraph
marks. While Word *interprets* the paragraph mark in a particular way,
it's just another character.
Word thinks "formatting" is things like bold or Times New Roman or blue
or 12pt. Edit > Paste Special > Unformatted Text will paste the bare
text (including the paragraph marks!), but omit formatting like blue,
bold 12 pt.
So you're not doing anything wrong. You're experiencing the paste
process as it should be. There are very easy ways to clean up text from
emails and web pages with extraneous paragraph marks. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm for details.
Hope this helps.
Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia