Thank you again; I do appreciate your time and talent. I am entirely novice in VBA; I had no idea this would be so involved, since it is so easy in Word.

It appears to me from the new code you have provided, that instead of pasting unformatted to paste copied text to adopt the style of my recipient paragraph, I am applying a specific formatting that is inflexible. Is this a correct reading? If so, and since I can paste unformatted via the Ribbon, as in Word (in Outlook: Format text/Paste/Paste special/Unformatted text), is there not a way to trigger this same command in a macro?