Preserving formatting

[saintonge]

How do I keep Word from deciding what the formatting
ought to be?

I have documents where I wish to paste material and have
it show up in exactly the same font, size, color, ect. as
the original, but Word cleverly decides to change it.
How do I make it leave the text looking the way I had it?

And please, DON'T TELL ME HOW TO CHANGE IT BACK! I HAVE
NO INTEREST IN PASTING DOZENS OF PIECES OF TEXT, AND
FORMATTING EACH ONE AS I GO! I NEED A GENERAL SOLUTION,
EITHER:

a)It leaves the text alone;

or

b)The text I paste in a certain location automatically
shows up in a certain font and style, regardless of what
the 'normal' template is or what the programmer thought I
ought to want to put there.

Sheesh!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

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[saintonge]

Well, that was pointless.

Now, is there somebody out there who can tell me how to
keep the font and style from changing?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Did you read the article?

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[Guest]

Yes, I read it. It doesn't tell me how to preserve the
formatting. It appears to give that information, but it
doesn't work. Or maybe it does, if you understand
something that the author knows, but I don't, and which
isn't in the article.

Now, is there anyone who can tell me what to do to
preserve formatting, without presuming that I know
something I don't know. Something along the lines of:
"Do a, b, and c, and the formatting will always be
preserved, no matter what it was, and what you are
pasting it into." ???

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi saintonge,

Yes, I read it. It doesn't tell me how to preserve the
formatting. It appears to give that information, but it
doesn't work. Or maybe it does, if you understand
something that the author knows, but I don't, and which
isn't in the article.

it says something about Paste Options in Word 2002+ ... If you have
that, this might be something for you to try.

Else: Word don't works the way you expect it to be.

2cents
..bob
...Word-MVP
....sometimes, when you are faced with a complex problem and search for
too simple an answer, you really do get it!

 

[David Thomas]

Did you ever get an answer to this? I was wondering
myself....