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Table cells: preserving font and color during Copy & Paste.
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Say that I create a table in Word document doc1, and enter text into the table cells. Next, say that I color a specific cell Red (the entire cell is Red, not just the text). Now, I create a similar Word document , call it doc2. Now, I want to copy the colored cell (color and all) from the table in doc1 to the corresponding cell in the table in doc2. The text copies, but the cell color does not. Why not ? Any ideas on how to preserve/copy the color with the text ? Also, if a create a table in say doc1, hi-lite the entire table and select a specific font, that font is not preserved once I start typing in a cell. If I select say Times New Roman when I hi-lite the entire table, than start typing in a cell, I usually end up getting Arial of a different type size than I selected. Any Ideas ? Thank you. DaleB |
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Table cells: preserving font and color during Copy & Paste.
1. If you are pasting a cell into an existing table, by default Word
pastes just the text; the alternative would be to create a nested table. See: Options used for "Smart cut and paste" settings in Word http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297680/en-us 2. The font probably changes back to the settings of the table style. What you can do is apply a *paragraph style* with the desired formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dale" wrote in message ... Hi: Say that I create a table in Word document doc1, and enter text into the table cells. Next, say that I color a specific cell Red (the entire cell is Red, not just the text). Now, I create a similar Word document , call it doc2. Now, I want to copy the colored cell (color and all) from the table in doc1 to the corresponding cell in the table in doc2. The text copies, but the cell color does not. Why not ? Any ideas on how to preserve/copy the color with the text ? Also, if a create a table in say doc1, hi-lite the entire table and select a specific font, that font is not preserved once I start typing in a cell. If I select say Times New Roman when I hi-lite the entire table, than start typing in a cell, I usually end up getting Arial of a different type size than I selected. Any Ideas ? Thank you. DaleB |
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Table cells: preserving font and color during Copy & Paste.
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Thank you for your reply. The article only applies to text. If I color a cell in a Word table, I would think that Word would know how to tag this...otherwise, it wouldn't remember it once the document is closed. It it can tag it, then it should be able to copy & paste it. After all, it does Copy & Paste colored text ! I am using color patterns in the cells and am trying to avoid having to go in and reselect the patters for each cell just be cause I am moving the information to a new table. Any ideas ? Thank you, DaleB "Stefan Blom" wrote: 1. If you are pasting a cell into an existing table, by default Word pastes just the text; the alternative would be to create a nested table. See: Options used for "Smart cut and paste" settings in Word http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297680/en-us 2. The font probably changes back to the settings of the table style. What you can do is apply a *paragraph style* with the desired formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dale" wrote in message ... Hi: Say that I create a table in Word document doc1, and enter text into the table cells. Next, say that I color a specific cell Red (the entire cell is Red, not just the text). Now, I create a similar Word document , call it doc2. Now, I want to copy the colored cell (color and all) from the table in doc1 to the corresponding cell in the table in doc2. The text copies, but the cell color does not. Why not ? Any ideas on how to preserve/copy the color with the text ? Also, if a create a table in say doc1, hi-lite the entire table and select a specific font, that font is not preserved once I start typing in a cell. If I select say Times New Roman when I hi-lite the entire table, than start typing in a cell, I usually end up getting Arial of a different type size than I selected. Any Ideas ? Thank you. DaleB |
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Table cells: preserving font and color during Copy & Paste.
The purpose of the "Adjust table formatting and alignment on paste"
option is to create consistent formatting, I belive. A different approach is to record a macro formatting a cell the way you want it. Then you could just run that macro whenever you wanted to apply that formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dale" wrote in message ... Hi: Thank you for your reply. The article only applies to text. If I color a cell in a Word table, I would think that Word would know how to tag this...otherwise, it wouldn't remember it once the document is closed. It it can tag it, then it should be able to copy & paste it. After all, it does Copy & Paste colored text ! I am using color patterns in the cells and am trying to avoid having to go in and reselect the patters for each cell just be cause I am moving the information to a new table. Any ideas ? Thank you, DaleB "Stefan Blom" wrote: 1. If you are pasting a cell into an existing table, by default Word pastes just the text; the alternative would be to create a nested table. See: Options used for "Smart cut and paste" settings in Word http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297680/en-us 2. The font probably changes back to the settings of the table style. What you can do is apply a *paragraph style* with the desired formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dale" wrote in message ... Hi: Say that I create a table in Word document doc1, and enter text into the table cells. Next, say that I color a specific cell Red (the entire cell is Red, not just the text). Now, I create a similar Word document , call it doc2. Now, I want to copy the colored cell (color and all) from the table in doc1 to the corresponding cell in the table in doc2. The text copies, but the cell color does not. Why not ? Any ideas on how to preserve/copy the color with the text ? Also, if a create a table in say doc1, hi-lite the entire table and select a specific font, that font is not preserved once I start typing in a cell. If I select say Times New Roman when I hi-lite the entire table, than start typing in a cell, I usually end up getting Arial of a different type size than I selected. Any Ideas ? Thank you. DaleB |
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