If you copy and paste from MS Word (or Excel) it looks like you can paste it into the CMS. but if you do, you get this really verbose and wrong HTML code. it won't look like you want and it will be hard to edit.

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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">Albin, Amy (Furman)<br />Advisor: {cms_selflink page='27' text='James Atkinson'}<br />E-mail: furman (at) msu (dot) edu</span></span></div>
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