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You can't, AFAIK. &nbsp;The whole point is it thinks you want to keep the formatting. &nbsp;There's 2 ways around this, though.<br />
1. After you've copied and pasted everything, then highlight your whole new document and change the text/size etc. &nbsp;This is fine, unless you already had made text/size changes that you want to keep, without resetting them all again.<br />
2. My personal favourite method is just to always paste into notepad first, and then copy back out of notepad and into Word. &nbsp;Notepad strips all formatting so what you get back out is vanilla text, and that will take on the destination font/size when you paste into the detsination doc.
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You can't, AFAIK.  The whole point is it thinks you want to keep the formatting.  There's 2 ways around this, though.
1. After you've copied and pasted everything, then highlight your whole new document and change the text/size etc.  This is fine, unless you already had made text/size changes that you want to keep, without resetting them all again.
2. My personal favourite method is just to always paste into notepad first, and then copy back out of notepad and into Word.  Notepad strips all formatting so what you get back out is vanilla text, and that will take on the destination font/size when you paste into the detsination doc.

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Don't be sorry. &nbsp;That's great. &nbsp;I've learnt something!
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Don't be sorry.  That's great.  I've learnt something!

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I have a client that is using MS Word for preparing some corporate documentation. They prepare these documents by using a lot of copy and paste from other documents.<br />
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They have discovered that when they paste information into their documents it seems to keep the formatting, and text size from the source document.<br />
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How can we change Word so the formatting is based on the destination document and not the source document?
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I have a client that is using MS Word for preparing some corporate documentation. They prepare these documents by using a lot of copy and paste from other documents.

They have discovered that when they paste information into their documents it seems to keep the formatting, and text size from the source document.

How can we change Word so the formatting is based on the destination document and not the source document?

Don't know how to set MS Word formatting

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