unwanted formatting changes when cutting and pasting

[blshep]

HELP!! I regularly tear my hair out using MSWord (Prof
2002) with the automatic formatting features. Could
someone please tell me how to conserve the ORIGINAL
formatting of a pasted section when pasted into a
document? I have a huge long document that is in
Trebuchet MS font, and when I paste in a section that was
originally in that font as well, it pastes in as Times New
Roman, sometimes it pastes in as bold and in italics. I
am at my wit's end. thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

 

[Joseph N.]

I have a huge long document that is in
Trebuchet MS font, and when I paste in a section that was
originally in that font as well, it pastes in as Times New
Roman, sometimes it pastes in as bold and in italics.

Instead of just pasting the selection, choose Edit/Paste Special, and then select to paste it as unformatted text.

Sometimes, the pasted selection will assume the formatting of the destination document's paragraph style with the same name, and sometimes the pasted selection will assume the attributes of the default paragraph style, even though it looks like you're pasting it into a modified paragraph. So, be sure that the destination paragraph style in the destination document has the formatting you want.

One always useful trick is to avoid pasting into a blank paragraph, but to add brackets to the destination document's paragraph having the desired attributes; then paste (unformatted) between the brackets.