Microsoft: I ALWAYS want to paste unformatted

Every time I past in an office doc, office carries the formatting over for me, which drives me nuts.

Consider a scenario: I copy from one doc where the font is 9 point garamond dark-blue italic, and paste in another doc where it's a title block of bold 14-point arial black, and office *carries over the formatting* and obliterates the point of copy/paste: saving time. I have to do more work fixing the formatting than the work I saved with copy paste.

Instead of reformatting, I often try to use a paste special where I can navigate a dialogue to specifically "paste unformatted", or I (faster, actually) launch notepad and paste then recopy paste, because notepad handily strips the formatting.

With all this work to copy a bit of text, why don't I just re-type my text at this point? I can do a lot at 80WPM and never have to touch the mouse. Copy/paste has been completely broken for me by Microsoft's attempts to make it more advanced.