

Accent 6 may be orange in the donor document. It may be thinking "I'm copying text in Accent 6 colour". When you copy and paste text with a font or colour applied as direct formatting, Word may not be thinking "I'm copying orange text". You can apply a theme from the Page Layout tab (Figure 1). Every document has a Theme applied to it by default, the "Office" theme. In Word 2007 and Word 2010, formatting depends not only on Styles, but also on Themes. …but text respects the theme of the recipient documentįigure 1: Apply a Theme in Word 2007 or Word 2010 So if, in Document 1, you have some text in style Body Text and you've applied direct formatting to make the text orange, then, when you copy, the formatting will retain the Orange, but lose the characteristics the receiver document has defined as Body Text. The text will, however, retain direct formatting. Text retains direct formatting when it's copied… If the Normal style in the other document is Arial 11pt, then that's how your text will appear.

So when you paste your text into the other document, it takes on the formatting of Normal style in that other document. Unless you've chosen otherwise, all your text is in style Normal. The issue is that Word doesn't think the formatting is changing, because Word doesn't think to itself "I'm copying some text in Times New Roman 12pt." It thinks "I'm copying text in style Normal" or "I'm copying text in style Body Text" or whatever. Text takes on the style of the recipient document Depending on the work you're doing, that might be easier to manage. If you're having trouble copying text from Document 1 to Document 2, try doing it the other way round.Ĭopy from Document 2 into Document 1. The text now appears as, say, Arial 11pt. When it arrives in the recipient document, the formatting changes. For example, you have some text in Times New Roman 12pt, and you copy it into another document. When you copy text, the format of the text can change.

