Pasting from A4 to A3 changes page setup. How to avoid?

[vezerid]

Hi all,

Using Word 2003. Topic is a student newspaper. Some of them want to
build it on A3 pages. The problem is they are arranged in groups, and
in each group each student writes their own article. Then these
articles are circulated among the members so that each one produces
their own newspaper.

We tried to copy/paste from an A4 article into an A3 newspaper.
Pasting changes the destination document Page Setup to A4, that of the
source.

Is this always expected to be the case? Any tricks to avoid this? I
tried the Paste Special... option but it does not seem to provide a
solution. Any ideas?

TIA
Kostis Vezerides

 

[Jay Freedman]

Don't include the final paragraph mark of the source document, which
contains formatting information that applies to the entire document (paper
size, margins, etc.). If the source document contains any section breaks,
don't include them either -- copy/paste only the content between the section
breaks but not the breaks themselves.

See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/FormatOfTextChanges.html for more
detailed explanation.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[vezerid]

A delayed thanks.

Kostis

Don't include the final paragraph mark of the source document, which
contains formatting information that applies to the entire document (paper
size, margins, etc.). If the source document contains any section breaks,
don't include them either -- copy/paste only the content between the section
breaks but not the breaks themselves.

Seehttp://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/FormatOfTextChanges.htmlfor more
detailed explanation.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

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