Thanks for the quick reply Sherry. Sounds like the clipboard concept is not something I have to bother my head about. Here are a couple more thoughts:
-The User Guide seems to distinguish between what the windows clipboard will do and what the Composer clipboard will do (see sec 5.1.6 p249 pdf). I take it from this section that I can add all of a song's lyrics to a Composer transcription from Notepad in the usual copy/paste manner (i.e. click copy in the Notepad screen and then click paste in the Composer screen. Trouble is that it is not working for me. Possibly I do not completely understand the mechanics of using the copy/paste method.
-The only reason I used Word is because I stumbled into it while I was thrashing around, and I did manage to copy the lyrics to the transcription, but then lost them again. At least I think Word played some role. I have all my lyrics on Notepad saved to my documents folder as txt files. Is there a better way?
-I will try and post copies of the text and song files as you sugessted.