"paste without format" acquires character style

[paleolith]

I'm on my first significant project, so still spending more time looking up how to do stuff than actually doing it. This is the first issue I haven't found an answer to by searching.

My project mostly involves copying text from MSWord documents into Publisher text frames. I'm very careful always to Paste Without Format -- even doing it from the menu.

Generally it works as I expect, but sometimes the text pastes Bold or, in the lastest case, Italic. I haven't figured out when it happens. The result is formatting not in the source or destination document.

Most recently, I pasted into a frame which started as style Heading 4, which is Noteworthy 22 Bold. I had no intention of using this style, but I'd have understood if that's how the text pasted. Instead, it pasted as Heading 4 + Andika 12 Italic. The document does use Andika for all non-heading text, and has one style ("byline") which uses Andika 12 Italic. In fact, editing "byline", it claims to be based on Heading 4. (I don't remember defining it based on Heading 4 -- based on Body or Base would have made more sense -- but whatever.) But the pasted text isn't set to "byiine", it's set to Heading 4 + ....

The other times I've seen this behavior, it's pasted as Bold. I didn't stop to analyze those, so I don't know what combination it was claiming to be.

Fixing this issue is minor compared with the other formatting I have to do, so it's not a time or effort problem. But I want to know what's going on for future efforts.

Oh, this topic is possibly related, but the description there isn't detailed enough for me to make the connection.

 

Edited October 6, 2023 by paleolith

[MikeTO]

I've never seen an issue like this. If you paste without format, there will be no formatting attributes pasted. That other thread you linked to was about my surprise that things like inline images were pasted.

I think the issue is more likely that the attributes at the text cursor position weren't what you expected. You can always undo after pasting and then type a word to confirm what formatting attributes were there. You might find that although you thought it was Heading 4 was actually already Heading 4 + Andika 12.

Good luck.

[paleolith]

11 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

You might find that although you thought it was Heading 4 was actually already Heading 4 + Andika 12.

Thanks, good point, and going back in History verifies this was the case. Still begs the question of how it got to be that way, as I'm very careful about always using styles and not directly formatting. But I will have to watch for future occurrences to figure out what I did.