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Word 2000 is stupid posted: Fri 2012-01-13 20:16:39 tags: n/a
Word 2000 is really dense about copying style information and pasting the style, not the actual formatting. So if, say, "Heading1" is defined as 16pt Times New Roman bold underlined in a source document, but the target document defines "Heading1" as green 12pt Bodoni MT Black with a 12pt space above and below, and 2.5-inch page margins, the clipboard gets only the style, not the explicit formatting details. Needless to say, chances are in a small-to-medium business with no formal word-processing policies that different document authors used styles in completely different ways, and half of them have that "define new styles for every different formatting combo in the document" option turned on.

I guess this is why they pay me the big bucks.