arabic formating to normal formating in MS Word

It seems to depend rather on a number of factors: What version of Word you are using, what is set as the default language (and whether the new document has opened with the default language or whether what you copied and pasted changed the language for some reason). I think that all of these eventualities are covered somewhere in this page: http://www.theworldofoffice.com/word-tips-tricks/a-quick-tip-for-changing-the-language-in-microsoft-word/ I think that I would first try the 'Select All' (Ctrl+A) approach to change the language of the copied text to your normal default: Select all text in the document; from the Tools menu, select Language and Set Language; Choose the language you require. If you have trouble with this, you could try using Wordpad (the basic WP that comes with Windows) as an intermediary. Copy your text from the source document, paste it into Wordpad and save as an .RTF document (this should lose any language-specific formatting but retain some of the simple formatting). Close the RTF file and reopen to make sure that the formatting has changed. Select all the text and copy and paste it into your new Word document (or you could simply open the RTF document in Word).