Hello

I have a 'main' 2007 document (200+ pages) divided into five chapters, and I have inserted 30+ pages of another document into it (near the beginning of the 'main' document by copying and pasting. This changed a few things such as inserting italics and bold, and I have now changed them back to their original state.

What I have noticed is that:

a) The 30+ pages I inserted are in a table format, so that when I mouse right-click on a section of text I see menu items such as 'Delete Rows', 'Split Cells', etc, and not the normal menu which has 'Paragraph', 'Bullets', etc.

This makes it more difficult for me to format the document (such as paragraph spacing) as I would wish and I wonder how I would remove the document from its 'table' constraints?

2) The 30+ pages that I inserted had the following header: 'Introduction'. However, when I copied and pasted the 30+ pages into the 'main' document, the word 'Introduction' was replaced by the header of the pages that come after it.



How can I keep my original 'Introduction' header, please?

Many thanks

Blueie

Hi Blueie,

Sounds like you've copied some content from a web page. This often ends up as a table in Word. You could try using Word's 'Convert to Text' tool from the 'Table Tools > Layout' tab. This will probably take care of the header issue as well.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hello Macropod

Many thanks for that.

I highlighted the 30 pages I had previously inserted and followed your advice and that looks as if it has got rid of the table format, so many thanks.

The header issue rtemains the same, though, so I had better get reading up on those!

Thanks again.

Bluie

If text pasted (from another Word document) contained one or more section breaks, that could explain why the header content changed. For the rules that apply to pasting section breaks, take a look at http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thsections.htm.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Hello

Stefan

Many thanks for that. I have manged to do it now.

Cheers

I'm glad you got it sorted, and thanks for the follow-up.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional