Styles Updating With Cut and Paste

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We are running Word 2000 (SP3). We have defined templates where Body Text is Times New Roman 11. When a user cuts from a prior document with Body Text at Times New Roman 12 and pastes into a document created from our template, Body Text gets changed to Times New Roman 12

Any ideas why this might be happening

Thanks
Craig
 
Sure. The style is copied over too, unless you hit Edit-Paste
special-Unformatted text. Then, it takes on the formatting stored in the
paragraph return that follows the insertion point.

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Craig said:
We are running Word 2000 (SP3). We have defined templates where Body Text
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is Times New Roman 11. When a user cuts from a prior document with Body Text
at Times New Roman 12 and pastes into a document created from our template,
Body Text gets changed to Times New Roman 12.
 
You need to put some text in the Body Text style into your new document
before the paste. You can delete it after the paste.

If you paste into a blank document, Word imports the style from the old
document (assuming you have at least one paragraph mark in that style being
copied). If the style is already in use in the new document, Word will use
the style formatting in the new document.

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Craig said:
We are running Word 2000 (SP3). We have defined templates where Body Text
Click to expand...
is Times New Roman 11. When a user cuts from a prior document with Body Text
at Times New Roman 12 and pastes into a document created from our template,
Body Text gets changed to Times New Roman 12.
 
Hi Craig,

To me, it sounds most likely that the "Body Text" style in the old doc
wasn't defined as "12 pt".
If the font size was applied as manual formatting, it stays applied after
you copy/paste.

If the diagnosis is correct, you can change the "Body Text" style in the
old document to "12 pt" and then save it.
This will remove the manual formatting.

Regards,
Klaus
 
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