You could Paste Special as Unformatted Text; this would not bring any styles
or font formatting along.

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"Hague2" wrote in message
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When copying multiple files into one, I get all the formatting styles
brought
with them. How can I delete most of them without deleting one at a time?
Also it seems Word 2003 will makes decisions for me automatically by
applying
styles if they are in the drop-down styles listing. Can I turn this
feature
off? Another situation is rather strange when I copy from one document in
one font and when you paste it into another, the font changes to Times New
Roman. These auto features don't seem to be consistent. I feel I've lost
control.

Thanks
Nita