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From: hey@leland.Stanford.EDU (Heyward Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Cutting and pasting in Word
Message-ID: <1991May27.021230.8892@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 27 May 91 02:12:30 GMT
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Organization: AIR, Stanford University
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I have run into a most annoying problem with Word.  I have some text
from a document that I want to paste into another document.  The text
is in 12 point times, and has subscripts and superscripts in 10 point
times.  The document that I want to paste into is in 14 point times.
The "normal style" for this document is also 14 point times.  When I
paste in the text, it comes in as 14 point times, but the subscripts
and superscripts stay at 10 point.  The clipboard shows the text as it
was in the document being copied from(12 pt text, 10 pt superscripts).
If I paste into a new document, it is fine (12 and 10 again).  If I
select all text and use Words handy Cmd-Shift-> command to increase
the font size to the next higher size, I get the desired result (14
and 12).  But now if I copy this text and paste it into my document,
it becomes 18 point text and 12 point superscripts!  What is going on.

I checked the manual and it points out that Word uses RTF(rich text
format) to store formating in the clipboard.  Is there a bug with RTF?
I realize that I could work around my problem by going ahead and
pasting the text, incorrect sized superscripts and all, and then
saving the entire document as an RTF file, then doing a global change
on the incorrectly sized fonts.  But what a pain!  

Thanks for any insights on this.

                    Heyward Robinson