Microsoft KB Archive/32078

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The information in this article applies to:
 * Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 3.0, 3.01, 3.02
 * Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, version 4.0
 * Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.1
 * Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1a

SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, when you try to copy a paragraph format to (COMMAND+OPTION+V) a destination, the destination does not change.

MORE INFORMATION
To copy a format from a source paragraph to a destination, use the appropriate method for your version of Word.

Word 6.0.1, 6.0.1a

 * 1) Select the source paragraph.
 * 2) Press COMMAND+SHIFT+C. (Copy Format)
 * 3) Select the destination paragraph.
 * 4) Press COMMAND+SHIFT+V. (Paste Format)

Word 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0

 * 1) Click the cursor in the destination paragraph.
 * 2) Press COMMAND+OPTION+V.
 * 3) Select the source paragraph by double-clicking in the selection bar to the left of it (to highlight the whole paragraph). As noted in the previous example, highlighting the paragraph by dragging is unreliable.
 * 4) Press RETURN.

Please note that pressing COMMAND+PERIOD will cancel the operation. To make the Copy From message, rather than the Format To message, appear at the bottom of the screen, the insertion point must appear in a paragraph; nothing can be highlighted.
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Last reviewed: November 17, 1997

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