As to the second part of your question ... The way to avoid changing style the next time you paste copy into your document: Instead of Edit/Paste (or clicking on the Paste clipboard icon), choose "Paste Special" in the Edit menu, and paste the new copy as Unformatted Text. Regards, Beth Lee Tallahasee, Florida e-mail: callibeth@xxxxxxxxxxx website: mywebpages.comcast.net/callibeth -- -----Original Message----- -- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul J. Traynor -- Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 6:11 AM -- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Subject: [mso] Problem with word paragraphs -- -- <snip> I think it was the introduction of outside text pieces that seems to -- have altered the document but can anyone suggest what I can do to fix -- this and perhaps avoid it in the future <snip> ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************