A neat trick:
1. create a small Table in Word
2. Put some carefully formatting text in a cell of the Table
3. Table > Select > Cell and then CNTRL-c
4. Select a cell in the Excell worksheet and CNTRL-v
Most of the formatting will be copied over as well as the text.

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Gary''s Student - gsnu200745
> I am trasporting blocks of text from word to excel and need the font to
> remain the same as it was in its original form. How do I do that? There
> seems to be a general/sweeping format and that's all I get?