fixing lost tab stops on copy/pasted docs

Hi all, apologies if this has been covered in another thread. I’m using WriteRoom 4.0 on Mac and am looking for an easy way to preserve (or insert en masse) tabs when I copy and paste a document from Microsoft Word. The document contains actual tab characters (they show up as arrows when I turn on formatting marks in Word), but when I paste into WriteRoom, they disappear and everything ends up left-justified. For context, the document is a manuscript with a tab at the start of each paragraph.

Is there a setting or workaround that would keep the tabs intact on paste? Thanks!

Not immediately seeing that here. From a selection in MS Word like:

Copy-paste to an empty document in WriteRoom 4.0 Preview (413)

Seems to be giving me:

Are there any other specifics that might be relevant ?