I´ve been through a number of the late MVP Shauna Kelly´s articles on styles and templates (a great website!), as well as similar stuff from other writers. One or two phenomena, though, are still causing me some trouble. I use Word 2010 with Windows 7.

I´ve created a fine template for my book, opened a new file based on this template, and now I´m going to copy-paste into this file the whole content of my "old" source-file, which is based on normal.dot. Since I need to keep a lot of direct formating from the sourcefile (bold, italic etc.), that would cost me a lot of time to reestabilish, I have assumed that choosing the option “merge formating” would be ideal, and it has worked fine for me in smaller test-files, that I´ve made earlier in the process. However, when I try to copy-paste the whole content (aprox. 300 pages of text), the text seems to want to bring along with it some of the styles from normal.dot. I can see in the styles menubox, that a number of styles are added, when I paste with “merge formating”. I don´t want this to happen, of course. Is there a way around this?


Best wishes Stephen