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When pasting text into my website, miles of unwanted info re the text source, font, etc. appear at beginning. How to prevent?

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For example, editing my site this a.m., pasted in the following: What’s Inside: Norris woman named the new superintendent at Big South Fork (see Around Town) ... -- but what appeared was: Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000292 EndHTML:0000003167 StartFragment:0000002785 EndFragment:0000003131 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/birdlady/Desktop/1.Frances%20Stuff/1.WritingEditing/2.NorrisColumn/1.MyColumns/2011Norris/1.JanMar2011/1.WebVersions/1.WhatsInside/011211WhatsInside.doc @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } What’s Inside: Norris woman named the new superintendent at Big South Fork (see Around Town) ...

For example, editing my site this a.m., pasted in the following: What’s Inside: Norris woman named the new superintendent at Big South Fork (see Around Town) ... -- but what appeared was: Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000292 EndHTML:0000003167 StartFragment:0000002785 EndFragment:0000003131 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/birdlady/Desktop/1.Frances%20Stuff/1.WritingEditing/2.NorrisColumn/1.MyColumns/2011Norris/1.JanMar2011/1.WebVersions/1.WhatsInside/011211WhatsInside.doc @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } What’s Inside: Norris woman named the new superintendent at Big South Fork (see Around Town) ...

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Use a plain text editor that doesn't place that extra formatting data on the clipboard to prepare your messages