Word changes font when pasting text

[Jim]

When I copy and paste test, either from one document to another or (less
often)within the same document, Word and other Office apps sometimes change
the font. How can I prevent this from happening?

(I can do edit-paste-special, but then I lose any formatting to the copied
text.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/FormatOfTextChanges.html