Problems copying 'styled' text between documents

[Guest]

Using Word-XP

I have formated the heading and body text styles in 2 documents, the formatting of the styles differes between the documents.

Problem, I expected that when I copied the text it would reformat and position as per the destination styles. BUT

Destination document:Heading 1 Number @1cm, Text starts @ 2cm. Body Text@2cm

Source document: Heading1 Number @1 cm, Text starts@ 2.75 cm. Body text @ 2.75cm

Text after copy: Heading 1 number @ 1cm, Text starts @ 2.75 cm. Body text @ 2cm

It's postiioned the body text OK, but the text on the heading is as per the source document WHY????? The paste option selected is Use destination styles

I'm promoting the use of styles to redcue reword on text copied between documents and this is not what I expected to happen.

Please help
thanks

 

[Stefan Blom]

See if the following article helps:

How Paste Options works in Microsoft Word 2002 and 2003
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/HowPasteOptionsWorks.html

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Stefan Blom

Using Word-XP

I have formated the heading and body text styles in 2 documents, the

formatting of the styles differes between the documents.

Problem, I expected that when I copied the text it would reformat

and position as per the destination styles. BUT

Destination document:Heading 1 Number @1cm, Text starts @ 2cm. Body Text@2cm

Source document: Heading1 Number @1 cm, Text starts@ 2.75 cm. Body text @ 2.75cm

Text after copy: Heading 1 number @ 1cm, Text starts @ 2.75 cm. Body text @ 2cm

It's postiioned the body text OK, but the text on the heading is as

per the source document WHY????? The paste option selected is Use
destination styles

I'm promoting the use of styles to redcue reword on text copied

between documents and this is not what I expected to happen.

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < JulieG > écrivait :
In this message, < JulieG > wrote:

|| Using Word-XP
||
|| I have formated the heading and body text styles in 2 documents, the
formatting of the styles
|| differes between the documents.
||
|| Problem, I expected that when I copied the text it would reformat and
position as per the
|| destination styles. BUT
||
|| Destination document:Heading 1 Number @1cm, Text starts @ 2cm. Body
Text@2cm
||
|| Source document: Heading1 Number @1 cm, Text starts@ 2.75 cm. Body text @
2.75cm
||
|| Text after copy: Heading 1 number @ 1cm, Text starts @ 2.75 cm. Body text
@ 2cm
||
|| It's postiioned the body text OK, but the text on the heading is as per
the source document
|| WHY????? The paste option selected is Use destination styles
||
|| I'm promoting the use of styles to redcue reword on text copied between
documents and this is
|| not what I expected to happen.
||

Have you tried a style reset after pasting?

Select the pasted text
CTRL-Q

Does that help? I know it has worked for me when I experienced the same
situation.
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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[Guest]

Jean-Guy

Many thanks that worked great, but any idea why this happens?

Julie

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < JulieG > écrivait :
In this message, < JulieG > wrote:

|| Jean-Guy
||
|| Many thanks that worked great, but any idea why this happens?
||
|| Julie
||
|| "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:
||

Other than "It's a bug.", or officially, "It is by design."...
I have no ideas!

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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org