Undo Paste Changes Format of entire document

[Jenny55]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel

Hi

Normally I use the function "paste special" "unformatted text" to paste text into a Word document. I do this quite a bit as I am constantly copying species names and things that are difficult to type again. When I forget I normally just hit "undo" and then paste again. However when in .docx, the Undo paste function changes the format in my entire document.

Is there a reason for this - and a way of stopping it?

Thanks
Jenny

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Jenny:

Check the format of the formatting Style applied to the text. Chances are
you have left it set to "Automatically Update".

Turn that off and the nonsense will stop.

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel

Hi

Normally I use the function "paste special" "unformatted text" to paste text
into a Word document. I do this quite a bit as I am constantly copying species
names and things that are difficult to type again. When I forget I normally
just hit "undo" and then paste again. However when in .docx, the Undo paste
function changes the format in my entire document.

Is there a reason for this - and a way of stopping it?

Thanks
Jenny

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