Does Word give you the "Paste special" option, so that you can force the rtf filter when pasting? If you do so, what happens? No. Only paste special options are unformatted text. Logan Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -------- Original message -------- From: "Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti" <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it&gt; Date:02/14/2015 3:30 AM (GMT-06:00) To: Gretl development <gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; Cc: Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] Possible bug in GUI On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Logan Kelly wrote: This does not happen with LibreOffice; it would be interesting to know what happens with other word processors, especially older versions of MS Word. My guess is that Word 2014 fails to automatically spot the contents of the clipboard as rtf, so it treats it as plain text. Does Word give you the "Paste special" option, so that you can force the rtf filter when pasting? If you do so, what happens? ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------