Its not being stripped -  its being stripped for control v but not shift insert.  Thanks Ben

yes.  

Dosnt work. How i did the test. Create a word doc - make a word bold. Highlight and copy. Goto to cute editor and paste into area. ctrl v pastes okay with stripped html all other methods of pasting bring the html code from word. ie shift ins, browser->file->edit-> paste. Im running the ce editor which i downloading ...

Dosn't work in these wasys Shift Insert and browser -> file ->edit ->paste still paste html. CTL V dosnt paste html and works as stated. What i need is something on the paste event thats zaps the html. If you have been around for a long time your more likely to use shift insert to paste anyway than ctl v so its sort of a funny ...

I have located and read the documentation on ''editor1.EditorOnPaste'' etc But as of the current version it only works if you go ctl-v or paste from word using menu option. Is there an option which will strip html (not only word html) on any form of paste ie shift insert, ctl v, file  -> edit -> paste in the ...