Copying Bullet points in Word 2007 Home and Student

[rapier20]

I am using Word 2007 and 'am having great difficulty copying bullet points
from one word document to another.

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

 

[Stefan Blom]

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.

 

[gr8auntieokie]

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