Why does pasting from Microsoft Word sometimes distort my formatting?

My invitation letter status has not changed. Help!

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Microsoft Word allows for more formatting styles than the Internet formatting language, HTML. When you paste from Microsoft Word, our system attempts to render your text into HTML on a best effort basis. The best conversion results are achieved when you use very basic formatting in your Word documents.

Clicking on the Paste from Word button () will launch a window into which you can paste your Word content to remove any unwanted formatting.