I want to paste without formatting. Specifically, I want to copy text from Word to a document I've opened in Open Office.
Suddenly, this gives me all kind of problems. Is this due to a recent opdate in Word 2013, and how it handles the clipboard?

Windows 8.1, Word 2013, OoO 4.0.
I select a word in Word. I copy it (CTRL+C). I go to Open Office Writer and press CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste without formatting: nothing happens.
I go to another application (Notepad, a rich text editor, doesn't matter wich) and press CTRL+V there: the word is pasted alright. So it is on the clipboard.

Why doesn't it want to be copied to Open Office? At least not without formatting?

It's not consistent: I copy all text in the document in Word, I paste that into Open Office: it works. I select another word: it works. I select another word: it doesn't work.

It may seem as though this is an Open Office problem. But actually I get the feeling it's something to do with the way Office deals with the clipboard.

(I find the recent interface very opaque. There's no more "help>about" in the menu, so I have no idea where I can find detailed information about the exact version number of my Word installation. And there's that OneNote application that installs itselfs and starts automatically at startup and I don't see any menu option to turn off this automatic startup, even though I never use it.)

MTIA.