I screwed up my heading styles in one word document that contains a whole bunch of notes. Now, I've found a way to reset Word settings (via registry setting) and I'm good to go on a new document. However, if I copy and paste all of the content from the old document to the new document, it overwrites the default Headings with the screwed up ones.



Any idea how to fix this?

Hi altjx,

Some things to note:
1. You should have to play with the Windows Registry to correct problems with a Word heading Style. The definitions for these are stored in Word's 'Normal' template.
2. Word provides options for how content pasted between documents is handled.
3. Pasting content from one document to another does not change the Style definitions in the target document. The formatting of the pasted content may differ (according to your paste settings in 2, above), however.
4. If the pasted content includes Styles that weren't already present in the target document, you may end up with new Styles with those same definition in the target document.
5. You can use Find/Replace to change content in one Style to another Style
6. You can delete unwanted user-defined Styles (such as those acquired by 4, above).
7. You can paste any text as unformatted, in which case it all adopts the Style attributes of whatever applies at the insertion point.

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Paul Edstein
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Thank you. I will give this a shot as soon as I begin note-taking today.

Note, macropod meant to say you should not have to play with the registry.

All too true!!

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]