Copy/Paste change of font?

[Paddy]

Not my machine or issue - a friend showed me and asked me:

Original Document uses exclusively Gil Sans font including heading styles
etc (except some Symbol fonts for maths symbols, formulae), with left
aligned (or left justified) text.

Slabs of text and graphics are copied, then pasted into new document.
Headings, styles etc the same as first document.

When pasted into the new document, the pasted text is all Comic Sans Bold,
fully justified. It all then has to be selected, and style change to
"Normal" and all is fixed.

But why does it do that????

TIA

Paddy

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Paddy,

Which version of Word are we discussing?

Original Document uses exclusively Gil Sans font including heading styles
etc (except some Symbol fonts for maths symbols, formulae), with left
aligned (or left justified) text.

Slabs of text and graphics are copied, then pasted into new document.
Headings, styles etc the same as first document.

When pasted into the new document, the pasted text is all Comic Sans Bold,
fully justified. It all then has to be selected, and style change to
"Normal" and all is fixed.

But why does it do that????

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Rae Drysdale]

Tools | Options | Edit tab. Check what settings have been made in the Cut and
paste section near the bottom of the dialog box.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/FormatOfTextChanges.html

 

[Paddy]

Thanks Suzanne, Rae & Cindy,

It remains a puzzlement, as Comic Sans Bold Full Justified is not a Style in
either source or destination document that I could see in my 10-minute look
and fiddle.

I think that sometimes Bill has an excursion to the Far Side.

Thanks

Paddy