There are multiple issues going on here. Your various documents :
• use different versions of the same Styles
• have manual formatting overriding those Style defintions
• have a mix of in-line and floating tables
All of which make it difficult to control the formatting when copying content between them.
The most basic issue concerns the Styles. To see how a given document differs from its own Style definitions, use Ctrl-A to select the entire document, then press Ctrl-Spacebar. This removes all the manual formatting and reveals the underlying formats. Do that for all the documents, then compare the formats of the paragraphs using the Normal Style, for example, and you'll see what the underlying differences are. If you're going to copy content between documents, you really do need to define and use their Styles consistently. Granted, there are ways around this, but it's better to deal with the problem at its source, rather than applying workarounds. Apart from anything else, learning to use Styles properly will make is easier to manage all your documents, especially those with complex formatting.
As for the tables, I'd suggest merging all the content into a single table, with a mix of row heights, cell widths, columns and borders for the lower part. That will give you greater control over the overall layout. Indeed, instead of the two-column page layout you're now using, you could use a single-column layout with a table that has an extra column with just one cell merged across all the row and all the data on the right-hand side of the page placed into that cell.
As a temporary workaround for the replication problems, you might try changing:
.Paste
to:
.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatOriginalFormatting)
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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]
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