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Format problems during copy/paste
About 6 months ago, I started having problems with a copy/paste operation
that previously had been totally straight forward. I'm doing an Edit -- Select All on the source document and then appending it to the target document. For some reason it's started "inverting" everything; bold text becomes regular, regular becomes bold; everything is underlined. I can't figure it out. Anybody seen this before? Word 2000, SP3, Windows 2000 v. 5.0, SP4 |
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Format problems during copy/paste
Hi ?B?THlsZUJfQXVzdGlu?=,
About 6 months ago, I started having problems with a copy/paste operation that previously had been totally straight forward. I'm doing an Edit -- Select All on the source document and then appending it to the target document. For some reason it's started "inverting" everything; bold text becomes regular, regular becomes bold; everything is underlined. I can't figure it out. Anybody seen this before? This sounds very much as if the style into which you're pasting (or the style of the same name in the target document) is formatted the same as the text your pasting. Bold, underline and italics are "toggle" formats: if you bold something that's already bold, you get "not bold", for example. I'd say: check that the paragraph where the insertion point is blinking when you paste is formatted with the "Normal" style, with no direct character formatting (select the paragraph and press Ctrl+Spacebar). Now paste. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Format problems during copy/paste
Didn't solve problem directly but got me pointed in the right direction.
Somewhere along the way a different template must have gotten attached to the target document. For that template, "Normal" text was defined as bold and underlined. Not sure how it happened, but I think I can clear this up now so it won't keep happening. Thanks. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?THlsZUJfQXVzdGlu?=, About 6 months ago, I started having problems with a copy/paste operation that previously had been totally straight forward. I'm doing an Edit -- Select All on the source document and then appending it to the target document. For some reason it's started "inverting" everything; bold text becomes regular, regular becomes bold; everything is underlined. I can't figure it out. Anybody seen this before? This sounds very much as if the style into which you're pasting (or the style of the same name in the target document) is formatted the same as the text your pasting. Bold, underline and italics are "toggle" formats: if you bold something that's already bold, you get "not bold", for example. I'd say: check that the paragraph where the insertion point is blinking when you paste is formatted with the "Normal" style, with no direct character formatting (select the paragraph and press Ctrl+Spacebar). Now paste. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Format problems during copy/paste
See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...xtChanges.html
-- 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. "LyleB_Austin" wrote in message ... About 6 months ago, I started having problems with a copy/paste operation that previously had been totally straight forward. I'm doing an Edit -- Select All on the source document and then appending it to the target document. For some reason it's started "inverting" everything; bold text becomes regular, regular becomes bold; everything is underlined. I can't figure it out. Anybody seen this before? Word 2000, SP3, Windows 2000 v. 5.0, SP4 |
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Format problems during copy/paste
Hi ?B?THlsZUJfQXVzdGlu?=,
Didn't solve problem directly but got me pointed in the right direction. Somewhere along the way a different template must have gotten attached to the target document. For that template, "Normal" text was defined as bold and underlined. Not sure how it happened, but I think I can clear this up now so it won't keep happening. Excellent. Here are a couple of thoughts: 1. My first thought was that the formatting was carrying over from something you'd just pasted in previously. That's something to keep in mind (and is why I mentioned the Ctrl+Spacebar) 2. By default, in some versions of Word, the "update automatically" option is activated for the Normal style. This means, if you format text with bold, the Normal style will also have "bold" in it. If the style is also set to update back to the template, this could be a source of the problem. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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