Microsoft KB Archive/146231

= PUB: Format of Pasted Text Changed in Publisher =

Article ID: 146231

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Publisher 3.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q146231



SYMPTOMS
If you copy some text and paste it into the middle of another paragraph, the formatting of the pasted text may change to that of the new paragraph. For example, if you copy several words formatted for 12 point, black, Arial Bold and paste it into the middle of a paragraph formatted for 10 point, red, Times New Roman, the pasted text will also be in red Times New Roman.



CAUSE
This is the way Publisher is supposed to work. It tries to integrate the pasted text into the existing text. While this behavior is different from earlier versions of Publisher, it does actually save work in the majority of cases, especially if you are assembling a long publication from a variety of shorter ones.

If the copied text has very different formatting (for example, more than one font, more than one color, and so on) you will see the following message when you try to paste it:

Preserve the text frame's format?

Click Yes to make the new text look like the rest of the text in this frame. Click No to keep the text's original formatting.

If you copy text and paste it into the beginning of a new and empty line, the text will retain its original formatting.

Additional query words: 3.0 w_mspub mspub pub3 pub95 pub97

Keywords: kbui kbprb kbusage KB146231

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