The newer versions of Word (2007 and later) seem to retain the font codes when text is copied. When I copied text from Word 2003 and pasted it into a search window in either Reference Manager 10 or Reference Manager 12, the text came in as plain font.
When I copied text from Word 2007 and pasted it into a search field in either Reference Manager 10 or Reference Manager 12 the font codes were retained. Even changing the font from within Word did not seem to work.
The only work around would be to paste the text into Notepad first and then copy from Notepad into Reference Manager.