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Cannot change style after copy/paste
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Using Word 97 (from Office 97). My wife is copying footnote references from one document to paste in the text of another Word document. The pasted text appears formatted as "Footnote Reference". Obviously she wishes to change that into "Normal" in the new document but is having a lot of trouble doing so. She selects the new pasted text (presently formatted as Footnote Reference), clicks on the drop down style box, selects "Normal", presses the Enter key, but the pasted text remains formatted as reference text! She's tried selecting everything (Ctrl-A), and doing the change style thing, again with no result. Then suddenly, selecting in different ways, the change occurs. So it is very frustrating and time consuming. What is she doing wrong? What is the correct way to effectively change the style of a pasted text? Thanks. -- Jeff Stevens Email address deliberately false to avoid spam |
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Footnote Reference is a character style. Applying a different paragraph
style will not affect it. Selecting the footnote reference and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar or selecting Default Paragraph Font from the Style list will remove the character style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jeff" wrote in message ... Hi Using Word 97 (from Office 97). My wife is copying footnote references from one document to paste in the text of another Word document. The pasted text appears formatted as "Footnote Reference". Obviously she wishes to change that into "Normal" in the new document but is having a lot of trouble doing so. She selects the new pasted text (presently formatted as Footnote Reference), clicks on the drop down style box, selects "Normal", presses the Enter key, but the pasted text remains formatted as reference text! She's tried selecting everything (Ctrl-A), and doing the change style thing, again with no result. Then suddenly, selecting in different ways, the change occurs. So it is very frustrating and time consuming. What is she doing wrong? What is the correct way to effectively change the style of a pasted text? Thanks. -- Jeff Stevens Email address deliberately false to avoid spam |
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