Style restrictions and pasting highlighted text

[petesgrille33]

Hi!
I have a pretty specific question about pasting into a document whose formatting is restricted. I'm using Word 2007.


I'm working with a doc whose styles are restricted. When I paste formatted text into the doc from other documents/websites/etc, usually my document strips away formatting and doesn't import the styles (or if it does, I can't see them at least as mine are restricted to a certain style set).

This is GREAT because I keep the styles consistent throughout the doc and also my gallery doesn't become cluttered with imported styles.

HOWEVER the big question comes when I paste highlighted text into my document. Not text that has colored shading, but text that was "highlighted" with the highlighter in the other document.
When pasted, the highlighting carries over into my document. Furthermore, clearing the text's styles doesn't clear the highlighting.

One way I know I can get around this is by pasting "special" - unformatted text- but I'd like to avoid this as the document will be passed around among many people who might forget to paste this way every time they paste highlighted text.

Is there any way to clear the highlight or create a style that will override the highlighted pasted text when applied? Again, remember that my formatting palette is locked so most of my power lies in styles!!
Thanks in advance!