Use the Paste button or the Paste menu item so you get the choice of pasting plain text vs rich text. Or, you know, fight it forever because it's slightly different. Your choice.
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(totally don't know why emojis are showing up in the code on the post preview!!)
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Because your code--which would work much better in a code block--coincidentally contains the keyboard shortcuts to create emojis. The aforementioned code block would eliminate that (or you could go to the advanced post editor and tick the box to disable smilies).
Why would anyone paste 363 pages into Sigil (Book View or PageEdit) in one go!? That's crazy. Use one of the other import methods mentioned to get clean html from Word into Sigil.
Or just go back to Sigil 0.9.14, Book View, and what obviously works for you. Sounds like you'd be much happier with it anyway.