Paste and Match does not work as well as Paste as Text.

[Howard3005 0]

You probably need them both.  The match is tricky because I might be inserting in an area where I have a combination of diagrams and text.  Sometimes it just doesn't work.  When I am just want to paste text, I will switch to Notepad++,

open a new window, paste my text, then copy it back to the clipboard.  This clears the clipboard of any overlapping formats and makes it easy for Evernote to get it right.  With "Paste As Text" Evernote can handle this directly, without my needing to bother with Notepad++.