Microsoft KB Archive/30662

Paste to New Document Does Not Carry Over Text Style

PSS ID Number: Q30662 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SUMMARY =

When text is copied and pasted into a new document in Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, the style assigned to the text sometimes does not carry over into the new document.

= MORE INFORMATION =

This problem will occur in the following two instances:

  When one of Word’s automatic styles, such as one of the Outlining styles or Table of Contents styles, is redefined and applied to selected text, and that text is then copied and pasted into a new document, the text takes on the characteristics of the automatic style defined in the new document. This behavior is normal. When an automatic style is redefined, it is redefined only for that document, unless it is set as a default style.   The style that has the same name as the style applied to the text being pasted in already exists in the new document. For example, if style1 is defined as bold and underlined in document 1, and style1 is defined as italic in document 2, when the text from document 1 is copied and pasted into document 2, it will be italic instead of bold and underlined. 

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