answer:When you copy text from some web pages, you are also copying their formatting, which produces the unwelcome problems you’ve listed. There are several solutions to your problem. You can get a couple of different programs which will strip the formatting, but for me an easy solution, assuming you are using Microsoft Word, is just to copy the text and paste it into a Word document. Highlight the text and press Ctrl + Spacebar. This will automatically convert what’s highlighted to plain text formatting. This doesn’t remove the >> characters that you sometimes get from email, or the hard line breaks, but you can eliminate those by using the “Find” and “Replace” functions in Word. If you don’t know how to do that, and you want to know, let me know and I’ll elaborate. I actually have made a macro that does it for me.