Well, it works if one pastes into the HTML editor, as that one removes all the formatting. The Rich Text Editor will assume that one wants to keep the formatting, and do its best to preserve it.
One can switch back to the RTE afterwards if one wants - the RTE is just not very good together with other applications, which can also be caused at least in part by those applications themselves. MS Word is one of the worst. A document that may well look practically unformatted with just a nice font, a few paragraphs, and a list or two, can in extreme cases come with ten times the text's characters just to express that formatting in code (completely invisible in the RTE), meaning people open enraged Support requests because they hit the character limit with a short entry and need to be explained that formatting does in fact contain characters as well. I had someone like that once in Support; they didn't believe me that the entry length could have anything to do with Word because they thought formatting on websites appears magically, and that LJ wasn't in a conspiracy to make people post shorter entries, until I copy/pasted examples of their code and did the math for them. I had to entreat them to please try pasting into the HTML
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