To copy only the conditional formatting, move your mouse over Paste Special, then choose Paste Special from the new menu that appears. Click the radio button next to Formats and click OK.

When I'm writing an e-mail or fiddling in TextEdit, I often copy in text from another location (Safari, another e-mail, etc.). Doing that, of course, copies the formatting along with it, screwing ...

I copy text that I either know has embedded formatting or that I suspect does, switch to BBEdit (or TextWrangler), paste and then select and copy it again, and then switch to the app I want to ...

It's supposed to be formatted just like the Word document.<BR><BR>I get the bright idea to save the Word doc as an .htm file, then copy and paste the source of that into the TEXTAREA.

Guide to cut & paste on Mac including how to paste without formatting, paste between devices, extended clipboard options, and how to see your Mac clipboard.