Pasting into a word document

[Guest]

Word 2003
I frequently copy and paste material from Web sites and Help documentation
into new Word documents. I have pre-defined styles, but I must manually the
Word styles throughout the document. This can be a very laborious process.

Is there a way to paste material into a Word document so it takes on the
destination styles (the styles have the same names as the source material)?

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello John

Word 2003
I frequently copy and paste material from Web sites and Help documentation
into new Word documents. I have pre-defined styles, but I must manually the
Word styles throughout the document. This can be a very laborious process.

Is there a way to paste material into a Word document so it takes on the
destination styles (the styles have the same names as the source material)?

I doubt that anything that you copy from the typical web site has any
meaningful style names except maybe normal/bodytext and headings. So I'm
not really sure what you are implying in your second paragraph.

You can try opening files from the web in Word directly (File| Open and
insert the URL directly) to see if copying from that helps any.

Finally, if Edit | Paste Special doesn't give you anything better, I
doubt you have much choice than restyling on your own. The information
which style a given paragraph should be in is usually not present before
you assign it.

HTH
Robert

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I doubt that anything that you copy from the typical web site has any

meaningful style names except maybe normal/bodytext and headings.

Worse still, it's usually not even honest Normal but rather the pernicious
Normal (Web).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thanks for your reply. What I mean by the second paragraph is for example, if
I copy a file from the internet and paste it into word, some paragraphs are
formatted with Body style, but the paragraphs don't take on the
characteristics of the Body style I've defined in Word.

Also, although I have the feature set to show a drop down menu (to select
destination or source formatting) when I paste something, it does not appear
when pasting material from the internet.

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi John

Thanks for your reply. What I mean by the second paragraph is for example, if
I copy a file from the internet and paste it into word, some paragraphs are
formatted with Body style, but the paragraphs don't take on the
characteristics of the Body style I've defined in Word.

I can't say I've encountered that behavior (or noticed it, and FWIW ).

If it's really in style "bodytext", but looking differntly, try if using
CTRL-Q (ResetPara) and CTRL-Space (ResetChar) are of any help to you.

HTH
Robert