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Word alters indents and margins of table columns and text objects
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? |
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Word alters indents and margins of table columns and text objects
Hello Roy
Roy wrote: 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 -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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