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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default Need help keeping formatting when pasting into other document

Well, the idea of the section break is to preserve the settings in the
document, which includes the margins. I assumed you wanted to insert the
cover page exactly as it existed in the second document.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Robert Macy" wrote in message
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On Oct 2, 12:44 pm, elzar wrote:
Terry Farrell;437570 Wrote:

At the beginning of your document, insert a Section Break, Next Odd
Page.
Then above that new break (so you need to have the ShowAll option on to
see
the non-printer characters), use Insert, File and choose the 'fancy
front
page'.


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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP


Thanks so much for your reply Terry.

I tried that but it doesn't work. All of the formatting is still lost.

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elzar


elzar,

I just tried what Suzanne suggested, adding the second section AFTER
the cover:
1. insert page break new section
2. make header and footing independent, remove them entirely
3. insert file [the formatted second section]

It almost worked, I got the right font, the right size, the right
header/footer, but...
I got left with the old margins.

If I had set them to the second section's margins, I would have been
done and got what I wanted.

Robert
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