Pasting behind the cursor

[Paul]

When I have a numbered list set up, and then paste text, just after a number,
what happens is that Word inserts the text immediately BEFORE the number,
and as regular text, as opposed to part of the list. How can I change this
behavior?

See the image linked to here:
http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/6374/cursorbi0.png

Before making this image, I placed the cursor right after the (h), where it
is in the image. Pasting my text, I would have thought, would have inserted
the stats about Rhode Island, CA, Russia, and Asia AFTER the letter (h), not
before.
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Paul

MS Office Pro 2003
XP Home
Dell Inspiron 1501

 

[Graham Mayor]

Try edit > paste special > unformatted text to paste and adopt the format at
the cursor.

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[Paul]

Graham, thanks for the reply. I did what you said, and it strewed each line
of text onto its own number. For example, with Lines 1 and 2 already typed
in, and the cursor at line 3, it gave me text not only at line 3, but at
lines 4 through 8 as well. SO this is a start, but I'd still like something a
bit less awkward. Perhaps I should just paste it and then try to find a style
that will automatcially incorporate the text into the numbered list?

Yes that's it.
I can just paste the text into the doc, without forming a new list #. Then,
in teh style menu, there is an option that says "1. Numbered". Selecting the
text I just pasted in, and then selecting the style, inserted it into the
numbered list.

Graham, you're a genius.
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Paul

MS Office Pro 2003
XP Home
Dell Inspiron 1501

 

[Graham Mayor]

The problem you are encountering is that you are inserting a block of text
that is formatted into several paragraphs. This is always an issue when you
copy others' work into your documents. See also
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

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[Paul]

I'm not convinced its the formatting--even doing this inside the same
document, with the same exact formatting, gave me the same results--text
pasted behind the cursor.
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Paul

MS Office Pro 2003
XP Home
Dell Inspiron 1501