[mso] Re: Word 2003 - match destination formatting

Hi thanks for this - but is this Kim Robin or Justin? <winks>

Yes I do mean fonts etc.  For instance, if I copy from one doc that has
normal style set as Arial 10pt and the normal style in the destination
document is Times New Roman 12 pt, I want it to pick up the destination
formatting without always being asked to confirm it my choice.  It's yet
another of those annoying things that takes a true typist's hands away from
the keyboard hunting for the mouse that I could do without!

Certainly my autotext does NOT deliver this, and I can't see how SmartTags
would do it either.  Paste Special defeats the object also as there is no
keyboard shortcut for it and it seems like overkill to start creating macros
for something that IMHO should already exist as an onboard macro!

Anne

-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Robin Banks
Sent: 28 June 2006 23:33
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Word 2003 - match destination formatting

By formatting, do you just mean font and font size? In my experience, 
autotext automatically takes on the formatting of the document you are in. I

have not had it work any differently.

Smart tags can be used to specify Match Destination Formatting.

I dont know enough about macros to be able to answer that one.

For cut and paste, try using Paste Special and pasting as plain text.

kim

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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Anne Robson" <anne.robson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Posted in the dark hours of the weekend originally so not had a reply so
far, hoping that just means it got missed.
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I regularly use autotext entries and also macros to add blocks of text into
a variety of templates.  With the autotext entries the font formatting
always stays the same as when the entry was originally created, I would like
to be able to match the formatting to the template the text is going into.
Also on copying text into a template, either just by cut and paste or by use
of macros for blocks of text, is there any way to ensure that the text is
always formatted to "match destination formatting"?  I've tried a variety of
options in the Auto Correct and Auto Text settings but nothing seems to be
working!

Thanks in advance.

Anne


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