CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 :: Text Frame Loses Formatting When Copied?

the thing is that on my previous version of Corel Draw (9? 10? whatever...) I could take a text frame with tabs lined up, copy it, paste it into a new document and all the tabs would be carried over from the original.

but when I try to do that in X3, it just copies across as plain text, meaning that I would have to do all the tabbing again.

When I say the tabs were set up, it's a list that looks like this:

Bill.................32..................Harvard

John..............27..................Oxford

where the .............. is made just by tabbing across.