bill - 5:48 am on Sep 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

As a WYSIWYG FP attempts to retain all formatting when copying from IE or an Office program and pasting into the WYSIWYG editor window. That's why it's putting that <span> in there.

You have a couple options. Copy and paste the content to a text editor like Notepad or Wordpad as an intermediate step and then paste into FP.

Another option is to Paste Special from the Edit menu.

A third option might be to paste into Code view and then add the tags around the content yourself.