Format altered on Copy/Paste in Word

[BMcD]

I work in a department that writes a lot of proposals, and we often copy large sections of formatted text from earlier work and paste into a new document.

When copying a section of a word document in a custom style template and pasting into a new document using the exact same template, often (but not every time) the format will be altered. Usually, bullets will lose their indentation, but sometimes bullets will convert to numbers (with the numbering starting with "0" instead of "1&quot.

Does anybody know why this occurs, why it only happens sporadically, and what I can do about it?

 

[vbaprogammer]

All of the paragraph formatting in Word is contained in the paragraph symbol (at the end of the paragraph).

When you copy sections you may not be including the ending paragraph symbol each and every time. This usually results in random results.

You might have better results by copying more than you need, and then deleting what isn't necessary ... but leaving the last paragraph symbol, of course.

Dan