Format Painter Makes Unwanted Format Changes

[Tim]

I've got a very long document with many heading levels. When I try to use
the format painter to transfer the style of one heading to another, I get an
unwanted change in format. First, I click on the heading that has the format
that I want to copy, and then click the format painter icon on the tool bar.
Sor far, so good.

Next, I click on the heading that I want to recieve the format. It gets the
new format. So far, so good. Unfortuantely, the first heading that had the
format being copied is mysteriously changed to a new format. Not good. To
prevent this from happending, I've turned off all of the autocorrect and
autoformat things I can find, but the probelm persists.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[CyberTaz]

Sorry it took so long for you to get to the group, Tim, but the fact is that
if this is a document of any length with a lot of heading levels you really
would be far better off to learn to use Styles for your formatting rather
than relying on direct formatting & the frivolous piece of frippery called
the Format Painter... especially if the doc may have to be revised
periodically. What you're experiencing is quite probably just an omen of
worse to come, eventually resulting in corruption of the doc which will
render it unusable.

You first might want to have a look here:

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/concepts/styles/

as well as the other relevant pages on Shauna's [excellent] site, and also
peruse the information here:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting.htm

for more guidance. If you need any help on specific issues don't hesitate to
pose your questions to the appropriate group.

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Tim,

I have not heard of such an issue before. Which version do you use?

You didn't mention the formatting change that was made to the paragraph you
copied the format from.
Even better would be some reproducible steps to see the problem.

Does the change occur on copying, or on pasting (as your description
suggests)?

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi John,

Thanks, I will play a bit with your info.
Sounds like one more reason to hate linked styles...

Regards,
Klaus