I want to transfer text from Word by this method. Can I copy and paste in VSD. I have tried bt perhaps there is some obscure method? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

It's not recommended but if your going to try it copy and paste into notepad first then save the document. Now copy and paste to VSD. This extra step will strip unnecessary code from the formatting that word uses in the doc. You may still get some position issues when you preview the page compared to the actual page. It all depends on how much text your working with.

This is a little trick I learnt whilst creating my CMS system. For text insertion I wanted no restriction on the formatting of text. So I found if I converted RF Text to html then that would display as constructed.
I just tested it in VSD and as expected worked ok. This was my method.
I typed some text and did some font and formatting changes. I am using Jarte a free program but I have tried this with Word and it too does the job. Now from Jarte in my case I exported the text as a html file. I opened that file in Wordpad and copied it. I then pasted that in a html box in VSD. The text can be moved around the page by moving the position of the html box.

So to recap take your Word document, tables, lists whatever save as a html document open that in word pad (It is easy to use) and copy and paste that into a html box in VSD.
If you want to see it as a CMS page go to http://CMS.inkmon.org/cmsadded.php . That is the site I am using to test various aspects of my system.
That is one method of CMS text insertion importing it as a php variable. Change the value of the variable and the text changes.

This page was created with VSD and the necessary php added

Many thanks for your swift responses. I will give it a go.

I would like to add the source will look odd as what you are doing with this method is putting a complete html file inside another, An Iframe does that but not using content that is inserted. So far it has stood any test I have thrown at it.