Send me a sample of the document you're copying from and the template you're
pasting into, and I'll see if I can figure it out.

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"Theresa" wrote in message
...
If it should be automatic and isn't, how do you suggest I figure this out?
I
just called Microsoft Support and have been on hold for 15 mins waiting
for
the guy to get back to me. Ugh.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Yes, it normally works that way automatically, so there's something
weird
going on here.

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"Theresa" wrote in message
...
On the documents that I'm copying, whether they are one page or more,
at
the
bottom of the document on the bottom left side, next to the page, it
does
read Sec 1. The original letter that I'm copying things into also
reads
Sec 1
at the bottom.

From one of your previous postings, you said the last paragraph can
act as
a
section break which is why I tried coping all but the very end of the
last
paragraph. I even tried pasting it into my original letter without
pasting
over the very beginning and ending of the original letter.

On www.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/Work WithSEctionsContent, it talks
about
how
to keep the pasted doc's settings instead of how to keep the original
doc's
settings which is my problem.

I keep thinking that there has to be a way for me to set up my
original
letterhead so that it automatically formats the content that is pasted
with
the original letterhead's margins. Does it normally work like that
automatically or not? I can't tell if I've messed it up or if I'm
trying
to
have the formatting work against what it normally does.



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You're positive there are no section breaks? When the insertion
point is
in
the last paragraph of the document you're copying, the status bar
says
"Sec
1"? What you describe sounds like the work of section breaks.

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"Theresa" wrote in message
...
I must be an idiot. None of this is solving the problem. If it
matters, I
am
using Word 2003 and my operating system is Windows XP Pro.

Whether or not I copy and paste all but the last paragraph of a
document
into my original letter, my original letter's margins are not
retained. I
tried copy/paste of all but the last word in a paragraph just in
case
the
end
of all paragraphs mattered, and it didn't work. Part of the
document
used
the
transferred doc's margins and part used the original letter's
margins.
I've
tried using several different test doc as the ones pasted it.
(There
are
no
section breaks in either document.)

My chief concern is that I am setting this up for others to be
able to
copy
other documents into and even their changing two margins is too
much.
They
don't want to do anything but cut and paste their documents in. Is
this
even
possilbe? I'm so frustrated.

Any other ideas? Could I possible have some of my settings wrong??
I
can't
see that I do but I've got to be missing something.

Thanks for the continued comments.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I think probably a review of
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm would
be
helpful.
Two things to keep in mind:

1. If you copy/paste text that includes the last paragraph in
the
document,
this is the same as pasting text that includes a section break:
it
will
contain page layout information, including margins.

2. If you paste in text from the Web, it will often have line
breaks
that
cause lines to end short of your margins. If you don't have
nonprinting
characters and text boundaries displayed, you might interpret
this
as
meaning that the margins had changed. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm for tips
on
dealing
with it.

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Words into Type
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"Theresa" wrote in message
...
I've seen your site, Suzanne, and had hoped you'd respond. It
sounds
like
the
margins shouldn't change as a rule when copying in other text
with
different
margins. Still don't know how to fix it though.

There are not section breaks or special marks in the copy I'm
pasting
in.
Just think of your average person that is hitting the enter
key at
the
end
of
a paragraph to start a new paragraph. I am setting this up for
multiple
people to use.

I'm pasting in copy from other miscellaneous letters that have
different
margins than the margin I want. Sometimes it works, sometimes
it
doesn't.

Additional thoughts?
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Unless you're pasting in text that contains section breaks
(or
the
final
paragraph mark), the margins (and the rest of the page
layout)
should
remain
unchanged.

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Words into Type
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"Theresa" wrote in
message
...
(sorry if this is a repeat. First timer and I don't think
my
posting
went
through)

I created electronic letterhead with logo artwork inserted
across
the
top
of
the page (margins are 0). I then set margins for the
bodycopy
and
saved
the
file. However, if someone copies and pastes copy to
replace
the
existing
bodycopy, the margins don't always stay the same. Is there
a
way
to
insert
new copy without having to alter the margin each time?

I've also tried inserting the logo artwork as the header
and
using
a
text
box for the bodycopy, but the body copy margins still are
not
permanent.

Help. I can't figure it out for the life of me.