You may find my blog post about the editor helpful. The Canvas editor will retain the structure and bold formatting but not keep any colored or highlighted text. Here is how my Word document copied in the Canvas rich content editor. Use Word's paragraph tools to create the space. (2) Also don't use enter key to create space between your paragraphs. (1) In Word use the Styles function for marking headings. The HTML code that Word generates is garbage however, if you structure your Word documents properly, you can retain some formatting. As other have stated inline text editors on web pages have difficulty interpreting Word HTML code.
