… but if you're using a mouse, then (at least under Windows) right-click gives you three paste format options.

there is no option choice in the file menu -- would it be somewhere else -- in Tolls there as no advanced option.

I'm afraid I don't know where 2007 for Mac might be hiding these options – never worked with that version/platform combination. Perhaps you could ask the same question in a Mac forum as well? if no-one here can help you.

But I'm not using Mac -- I'm running windows -- even thought it's running on my macbook pro -- it's still windows, whether it's with parallels or my boot camp partition; it's windows, and it's Word 2002 not 2007.

Sorry – mislead by the heading Mac OS X, Office 2007 … Still can't help you with 2002, I'm afraid: I had a long holiday <g> between Word 6.0 and Word 2010.