When you copy text from a word document you also copy the formatting that the text is in. When you paste text elsewhere, generally the formatting is copied to the new location along with the text. The forum software that Bedlington.co.uk uses is intelligent and recognises formatting of text as if it were a word document. When you paste into work you can select if you want to keep the formatting of the text you have just pasted by using the formatting icon that has appeared. See image below: It is a classic case of the computer thinking it knows what you want to do rather than letting you get on with your own devices. If you are pasting from various sources into Bedlington it will copy the formatting from each of the locations so if I wanted to copy text from a word document which I have collated from various website sources, it will appear on here with each of the different typefaces from each of the sources. May clear things up or it may confuse you lot but you could always compile everything in Microshaft Word then copy it to notepad to remove the formatting then copy from notepad to Bedlington or just leave it to it's own devices. Personally I would just collate it straight into Bedders and use the formatting tools within the forum text formatting box. It is rather intuitive and generally does alot of the hard work for you.