Paste Special confusion

[HONYAKUKA]

Word 2003

If I Copy text material on a web page and paste it into word using Edit > Paste
Special > Paste option button > Formatted Text (RTF), the font and paragraph
formatting (specifically, paragraph spacing) are retained in the Word document.

If I run the following macro, however, the paragraph spacing is lost:

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Sub PasteSpecialRTF()
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteRTF
End Sub
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(I've omitted certain Error handling for simplicity.)

Why should there be a difference?

What would the code be that is truly equivalent to Edit > Paste Special > Paste
option button > Formatted Text (RTF)?

Incidentally, if I record a macro by pointing to Edit > Paste Special > Paste
option button > Formatted Text (RTF), the recorder creates the following code:

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Sub Macro4()
Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdPasteDefault)
End Sub
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The Type "wdPasteDefault" is not defined in the Help file under PasteAndFormat
Method. Interestingly, if I record this sequence --- Edit > Paste Special >
Paste option button > Unformatted Text --- I get the same macro, with
"wdPasteDefault".

wdPasteDefault evidently gives you the most recent wdRecoveryType, NOT RTF or
anything else in particular.

Anyway, thanks for any help.

Jay