Better yet, use Paste Special (Home tab/Clipboard group/dropdown arrow on
Paste button/Paste Special) to paste text from Doc A to Doc B, letting the
styles/formatting of Doc B set the appearance of the text in the new document.
I tell our people to NEVER paste text from one document directly into
another; always, _always_, ALWAYS use Paste Special. Straight-pasting from
one doc to another can "infect" your newer document with formatting problems
from the older document, which can create havoc with your newer document.
Also, I tell them NEVER to use the format painter to paint formatting from
one NUMBERED or BULLETED style to another. For reasons I'll never understand,
paintbrushing a numbered/bulleted paragraph can cause the "paint from"
paragraph to revert to Word's default format for that paragraph, which is
annoying to say the least.
Cyndie Browning
Tulsa, OK, USA
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > When you copy text from one Word document to another, and it has styles
> applied which exist in the target document, the style definitions in the
> target will be used. What you can do is either modify the style(s) in the
> target document or reverse the paste operation: Instead of pasting into
> document A from document B, paste the relevant text from A into B.
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> --
> Stefan Blom
> Microsoft Word MVP
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> "rapier20" <rapier20[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:46B718B1-1B31-4EC7-97F3-80EFAABC885E[ at ]microsoft.com...
> >I am using Word 2007 and 'am having great difficulty copying bullet points
> > from one word document to another.
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> > The problem that I have is that when copying the details into a new
> > document
> > the bullet points appear with squares around them and cant get rid of
> > them.
> > Also part of the copied document apears in a different font and colour to
> > the
> > original document and a number of the texts which accompany the bullet
> > points
> > apear in "boxes" which again I do not want. This occurence is happening on
> > virtually every piece of text that I copy which has a bullet point
> > accompanying it.
> >
> > This error is incredibly frustrating and is having a major impact on
> > things
> > I do
> >
> > No I 'am not saving my document in Word 2007 but 2003 as not enough users
> > in
> > the UK are using 2007 yet.
> >
> > If you would like a copy of the document I will be happy to oblige
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