Although you can, only do this in small doses (a paragraph or less at a time).  All Microsoft products will copy a tonne of hidden formatting information into your page.  This might not seem like a problem now, but if you do this regularly you will find your pages are really slow to load for your users, for you while editing and for search engines (perhaps negatively affecting your search engine ranking).  But worse, your formatting may look completely different on other browsers.  You might also find very strange things happening when you attempt to add or edit to the pasted text.

The best solution is to copy and paste your text into Notepad first(Start, Programs, Accessories, Notepad Editor) then copy and paste from there into our content management system. This will remove all your special formatting, but this is necessary.

Copying Images from your computer or from word.

If you copy and paste from your computer or word, it can be a bit hard to work out why sometimes it works, and more often it doesn't.What usually happens is that your website makes a local reference to the photo on your own computer, which means that it looks like it works, and it does on your computer, but for anyone anywhere else onthe internet, they won't be able to see your photo, which is still situated on your computer and not on the website.