How can I preserve the look of original text of a word doc when copying and pasting into an email?

I am trying to copy and paste a resume into an email, and everything I try still does not preserve the original format. I have tried converting the document to a RTF file, and I have even tried copy and paste onto wordpad. Any useful ideas would be helpful.

save it and remember what you saved it as and where, then click attach file and go to the the folder you saved the doc in and click on the doc. then just wait for it to upload and send the email to whoever you were going to send it to