Coping with font size change when copying and pasting

[Guest]

I have figured out how to work around the problem of the font size changing
when I copy from one document and paste into a separate document. After I
highlight the portion to be copied, I click on the font size as though I was
changing it. Nothing happens, but then I click on copy and paste it into the
other document, and the font size doesn't change. I'll do this until someone
figures out how to solve this with a setting of some kind or the other. I
never had this problem until I had to re-install Word 2003 due to a different
problem.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Did you read the responses you got yesterday?
You need to learn how Styles work and do your formatting using them. Then
you will get the expected results.
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/TipsOnStyles.html
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide




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[Guest]

Yes, I did read the response I received yesterday, but copying and pasting
"special" using the menu from the edit button, having the new item come in as
text, and then reformatting the new item to the format of the recipient
document is about two steps more than hitting the font button on the tool bar
before I copy the desired text. Life is too short for taking tutorials when
all I want to do is copy and paste quickly. If something this simple
requires a tutorial, there is something wrong with Word. I suppose you could
say there is something wrong with me, but all I want to do is write my
documents, not spend time learning the fine points of Word.