Turning off styles

[Joel M. Eichen D.D.S.]

Use Paste Special and paste as "unformatted text." Then the pasted
text will acquire the formatting style of your document!

I do a lot of cutting and pasting from one document to
another. Often when I paste the new text its font and
format have changed or it changes into bold or underlined
text etc. I spend a huge amount of time reformatting
everything. How can I make sure that the font I'm looking
at in the original document is the one that appears when I
paste it? (I never had this problem when I used
Wordperfect.)

Ideally I would like to get rid of styles altogether - I
can tell Word what font and formatting I want and where
and I don't want it to try and be "helpful" and predict
things for me (most of the time it gets it wrong).

Thanks.

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[Davinder Lail]

I do a lot of cutting and pasting from one document to
another. Often when I paste the new text its font and
format have changed or it changes into bold or underlined
text etc. I spend a huge amount of time reformatting
everything. How can I make sure that the font I'm looking
at in the original document is the one that appears when I
paste it? (I never had this problem when I used
Wordperfect.)

Ideally I would like to get rid of styles altogether - I
can tell Word what font and formatting I want and where
and I don't want it to try and be "helpful" and predict
things for me (most of the time it gets it wrong).

Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

"Turning off styles" would remove most of the utility of Word, but you can
keep Word from second-guessing you about styles if you disable the
AutoFormat As You Type options (see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm). Wrt pasting,
see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/FormatOfTextChanges.html

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[Davinder Lail]

Thanks. I checked out Shaunkelly.com who suggested that
to avoid pasted text taking on the format of the styles in
the recipient document, I need to use styles with
different names. Presumably this means changing the names
of the styles in one of the documents before I start
transferring text, which seems a very time consuming
solution. Is there no easier way of doing it?

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Davinder

Have you tried Joel's suggestion of using Edit > Paste Special and pasting as unformatted text?

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia

 

[Joel M. Eichen D.D.S.]

To keep the original format, COPY, PASTE SPECIAL, PASTE as HTML.


Joel

Hi

Thanks. Yes, I've tried that, the problem is then you
don't get to keep any of the formatting of the original
text (all the bold, italics etc disappears). What I want
to do is to be able simply to copy the text from one
document to the other without the formatting of the
original text being changed.

I guess there's no way of doing this without checking and
altering if necessary the styles each time, or
reformatting the text once it's been pasted (all of which
wastes time in a high pressured job). This seems a big
flaw in Word - I preferred the Wordperfect system which
had format codes within the text which remained intact
when text was copied (unfortunately my employer switched
software).


Special and pasting as unformatted text?
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Philadelphia PA

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meaning no one IN PENNSYLVANIA
has seen the tooth or teeth in
question so take this advice in
proper context ~ its the internet!

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