Hi Frank

I can think of two things that might cause this behaviour.

The first is that text pastes as Normal style if it is pasted into a
document that is protected for styles, and the text is in a style that is
not allowed in the destination document. But that functionality was only
introduced in Word 2003. So you shouldn't see that in Word 2002. In any
case, in Word 2003, do Tools Protect Document to see if style Protection
is in effect.

The other is that the paste command might have been hijacked by an add-in so
that it forces text to be pasted in Normal style. I've certainly written
code like that in the past (although I gave the user some warning as to what
was going on!). Try running Word in Safe Mode to see if you observe the same
behaviour. To do that, Start Run. Type winword.exe /a (note the space
before the slash). That will open Word but will not load any add-ins. If
that solves the problem, you'll have to find the culprit add-in and either
re-write it or uninstall it. Look for Sub EditPaste and Sub
EditPasteSpecial.

For information on finding add-ins see:

How to find out whether any Word Add-ins have been installed
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...sInstalled.htm
and
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"frankc" wrote in message
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Hi CyberTaz-

The portion of document 4B to be copied was selected as follows.
The show/hide button was turned on, so as to display paragraph marks.
The cursor was positioned at the beginning of the content to be copied.
The document was scrolled down to the end of the content to be copied.
The Shift key was depressed.
The cursor was clicked at the end of the content to be copied
(including the paragraph mark).

I am trying to figure out what would cause the paste operation to be
confused. I am listing all the styles in both documents 4 and 4B

1. I verified that all the styles used in both documents were all
"SeniorNet" styles. If the definition or content of a style with a
given name were to differ between documents 4 and 4B, would that cause
the paste operation to revert to a least common denominator, so to
speak, of Normal?

2. What would person A and or person B do that would change the
definition of a style with a given name, or to create a new
"SeniorNet" style with a similar, but different definition? It
would be good if we could determine what actions to avoid in the
future.

Thanks for your feedback. It's greatly appreciated.