Index: CKEditor/trunk/CHANGES.html
===================================================================
--- CKEditor/trunk/CHANGES.html	(revision 6817)
+++ CKEditor/trunk/CHANGES.html	(revision 6818)
@@ -55,4 +55,5 @@
 		<li><a href="http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/7588">#7588</a> : The editor code now has a protection system to avoid issues when including ckeditor.js more than once in the page.</li>
 		<li><a href="http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/7322">#7322</a> : Text font plugin now recognizes font family names which contain quotations.</li>
+		<li><a href="http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/7540">#7540</a> : Paste from Word introduces wrong spaces.</li>
 	</ul>
 	<h3>
Index: CKEditor/trunk/_source/plugins/clipboard/plugin.js
===================================================================
--- CKEditor/trunk/_source/plugins/clipboard/plugin.js	(revision 6817)
+++ CKEditor/trunk/_source/plugins/clipboard/plugin.js	(revision 6818)
@@ -388,5 +388,5 @@
 								// The very last guard to make sure the
 								// paste has successfully happened.
-								if ( !CKEDITOR.tools.trim( data.toLowerCase().replace( /<span[^>]+data-cke-bookmark[^<]*?<\/span>/g,'' ) ) )
+								if ( !( data = CKEDITOR.tools.trim( data.replace( /<span[^>]+data-cke-bookmark[^<]*?<\/span>/ig,'' ) ) ) )
 									return;