Chesterton Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 (edited) Hi I have an existing formatted Publisher document, and would like to paste text in from a word document. Can I do this whilst retaining the attributes of the existing text, ie font, size, colour etc. This seems to be a fairly basic requirement but cant find the solution in Publisher. Many thanks Edited December 17, 2021 by Chesterton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 2 hours ago, Chesterton said: Can I do this whilst retaining the attributes of the existing text, ie font, size, colour etc. If you mean "can Publisher paste the new text without carrying along the formatting from Word", then no. The closest you might get is to use Edit > Paste Without Format. Or you could paste into a text editor first, such as NotePad++ (Windows) or a similar simple editor on Mac, and then copy/paste from there into Publisher. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesterton Posted December 17, 2021 Author Share Posted December 17, 2021 3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: If you mean "can Publisher paste the new text without carrying along the formatting from Word", then no. The closest you might get is to use Edit > Paste Without Format. Or you could paste into a text editor first, such as NotePad++ (Windows) or a similar simple editor on Mac, and then copy/paste from there into Publisher. Great thanks Walt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 You're welcome. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 You might try this... APub use Edit > Paste - Text retains bold and italics but also creates a new style based on the Imported style formatting From Text Styles tab select hamburger icon to the right of the required style Choose "Apply body text to paragraphs and preserve character formatting" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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