Pasting Spanish Text into Dreamweaver - Special Characters

I am working on a website that has pages in both English and Spanish.  I have all the Spanish translations in a Word document. When I try to copy and paste the text into Dreamweaver (either directly into the code or directly into the visual editor) the special characters do not come up automatically in the code view (like it would if I pasted a copyright symbol in).

For instance, the text looks like this in the code and visual editor view in Dreamweaver:
Los estadounidenses están viviendo más años que nunca, y muchos individuos mayores están llevando vidas activas, sanas y productivas.

But looks like this in the browser:
Los estadounidenses están viviendo más años que nunca, y muchos individuos mayores están llevando vidas activas, sanas y productivas.

It should be like this:
I paste están and in the visual editor it looks like están in the code view and están in the browser.

I tried copying the text to notepad first, but it made no difference.

How can I paste Spanish text into Dreamweaver from a Word document and get Dreamweaver to automatically code the special characters?

Many thanks,
-HB