Greg
To add to Klaus's explanation: two key strokes that you may find useful are:
Ctrl+Spacebar = Reset Character Format
Ctrl+Q = Reset Paragraph Format
If you select the paragraph giving the problems and apply both those
shortcuts, if effetely removes all direct formatting leaving the underlying
style only. It should get you back in control of the situation!
--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/
: Hi.
:
: 1) Thanks for that information. I'll watch for that Style setting now
when
: I'm building a document.
:
: 2) The 9-page document from which I'm copying text, though, is still
giving
: me problems, and I'm wondering how to fix that.
: The way that I "fixed" the copy-paste problem was to change bold to
: underline in the original document, then when I copy-pasted it I changed
the
: text to "Normal" and then replaced the underlined text with bold, that was
: the only way I could find to change the 'photo-negative' (Bold is not bold
&
: not bold is Bold) problem.
:
: I don't understand enough of the Styles yet, in terms of setting them or
: changing them - especially, how to now change nine pages of text to a new
: setting affecting the whole document:.
:
: When I blocked the text in the problem document and changed the Style
: setting from Normal + Not Bold to simply Normal, *all* my text changed to
: Bold Text.
:
: I'm not sure what this whole problem is *called*, so I'm not sure how to
: go hunting for information in the Help files about it.
:
: If someone could explain a bit of the underlying principles here, and
get
: me steered to the Help files I need to understand the whole thing and make
: the changes in that document so that it complements the settings in other
: documents, that would be a big help too.
:
: Thanks in advance
: GP
:
:
:
: : > Hi Greg,
: >
: > The style you use for the pasted text is defined as "bold" in one
: document,
: > and "not bold" in the other.
: > Change the style definition, and everything should be fixed.
: >
: > Greetings,
: > Klaus
: >
: >
: >
: > > Hi.
: > >
: > > I'm trying to copy a block of text from one document to another.
: > >
: > > In the source document some of the text is in Bold.
: > >
: > > When I paste the text in the new document, the text that wasn't in
Bold
: is
: > > now Bold, and the Bold text is now normal.
: > >
: > > Did I accidentally hit a key combination at some point in the source
: *or*
: > > the target document, so that MSWord thinks that the text all has to be
: > > reversed when it's copied?
: > >
: > > How do I re-toggle the text so that it changes back from this
: > > 'photo-negative' state it's in now?
: > >
: > >
: > > Thanks for any help.
: > >
: > > GP
: > >
: > >
: >
: >
:
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