Dealing with content pasted in from Word is a real PITA.  The content contains all sorts of wonderful crap and this is even different depending on whether IE or Firefox is used.

I use paste_insert_word_content_callback to process some custom regular expressions to strip out as much of the unwanted material as I can.  I have actually taken this further and am now implementing a different cleanup routine depending on the content style sheet configured for Tiny (which corresponds to a different template in Word, at least for my documents it does).

Good luck,

Scott

Is there any solution to this issue yet? It seems a very simple and obvious problem.

All I want is for anything CTRL-V'd in to be pasted in as plain text not rich text - is this not possible?

I'm aware that using the 'paste' plugin you can have a seperate button to paste word content (and then strip crappy tags), but in reality no user is ever going to use this and will continue to CTRL-V and thus bypass it.