transferring text from spreadsheet

There must be a way to transfer text from a spreadsheet to the OOo word processor. I'm just not finding it. Whenever I copy a block of text and then paste it onto the OOo word processor screen, the block is confined to a box. Is there a way to transfer it so that it is plain text? I found I could do this by transferring a block of text (or rows of numbers) to KWord, but for some reason, when I saved the resulting document as rtf in KWord, OOo could not read the resulting document! In any case, I would prefer to work within OOo. dj tuchler