Pasting in edit

[Goldilocks]

Since my computer crashed due to a virus, and all software had to be
re-loaded I am having sporadic problems pasting in edit to a previously saved
MS Word document. This includes going to an old document, copying, and
pasting it into a new one. The default font always goes to Paprys, which I
change manually, but it would be nice to set it once and for all. However,
even doing that, often times the paragraph/line spacing is off and there is
nothing I can do to change it. Previously, when having trouble pasting in
documents or e-mail documents where the spacing was off, I have been able to
go to Notepad, format it, and then copy and paste, but Notepad no longer
shows as a normal document either, but pastes everything in a very wide
document. I'm sure there are some simple tool fixes, but I haven't been able
to figure out what they are. Thank you for any suggestions.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Make sure that the target document has the desired formatting, by modifying
the style(s) as desired (often it suffices to modify the Normal style). Then
Edit | Paste Special as "Unformatted Text"; that way, the pasted text will
adjust to the formatting of the target document.

For more, see these articles:

How to modify styles in Microsoft Word
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ModifyAStyle.html

How to change the default settings for Word documents
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/CustomizeNormalTemplate.htm

For the issue with NotePad, you may want to ask in a Windows newsgroup.