Word alters indents and margins of table columns and text objects

[Roy]

When I paste a text object from PowerPoint to Word, or when I paste a table
from one Word document to another, Word appears to overwrite the formatting
of the table columns and text objects with the paragraph formatting of the
destination document. It causes the text in the table cells or PPT diagrams
to be shifted way off to the right, sometimes to the point where they
disappear altogether. This doesn't make sense, and it makes it almost
impossible to paste these things from one document to another.

What is causing Word to do this, and is there a way to prevent Word from
applying the paragraph formatting to items where it doesn't belong?

 

[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Hello Roy

When I paste a text object from PowerPoint to Word, or when I paste a table
from one Word document to another, Word appears to overwrite the formatting
of the table columns and text objects with the paragraph formatting of the
destination document. It causes the text in the table cells or PPT diagrams
to be shifted way off to the right, sometimes to the point where they
disappear altogether. This doesn't make sense, and it makes it almost
impossible to paste these things from one document to another.

it does make sense if you think about individual documents/their
templates govern how a certain paragraph (style) should look like. Then
you can have, say, a fax template which uses a 13 point font for its
body text, and a letter template that uses 10 point, and you can
copy/paste text to and fro and it always looks like it should in the
context of the document/template.

[IOW: if you see a paragraph in "Arial 11 pt", Word will see a paragraph
in style "Normal" and apply the style of the destination document.]

Anyway: I don't know which version of Word you are using, but you do
have the means to use Past Special and/or change paste options after
pasting (if they're set in options).

HTH
Robert