Paste into locked template w/o it defaulting to normal style?

[Guest]

My team and I are using a locked template and are having to cut and paste
from several documents. Some are previous projects based on the template,
while others have never been associated with the template at any level.

Copying and pasting from previous documents based on the template is simple.

The problems begin when we are required to copy large amounts of text from
older files and files from subcontractors, everything pastes in as normal and
we have to waste time choosing what should be body text and what should be
bullets/headings, etc...

Is there a way to reset MS Words default so that everything pastes in as
body text?

 

[Guest]

Forgot to say that we are using MS Word 2003

 

[Guest]

I've got a similar set up in my department.

Insert a blank Body Text paragraph and then paste the problem text
unformatted. You'll have to go in and clean up any bullets that come over as
they'll be converted to flat text rather than real word bullets, but you
won't bring in junk styles and all pasted text will be Body Text.

For our template, I added a macro for Paste Unformatted and assigned it to a
button on a custom toolbar.