The styles must be getting in the document via some other route than Notepad. AFAIK Notepad does not move styles. If the style is in the document and you paste from Notepad text will take on characteristics of the paragraph style it is pasted into.

Thanks for your reply, this is what I did, please confirm if it's the correct procedure: </br>
- before insertion, I checked the formatting where is the cursor (by clicking Paragraph down arrow, a paragraph screen came up showing spacing before/after being 0. </br>
- I cut & paste a text from web into Notepad, cut/paste again into Word, and the inserted text has spacing before/after set to auto!! </br></br>

ps: I had Paste options set to paste only text except when it's from the same documents. So I guess I'm following all the correct rules, but it seems not working until you shut down the computer. </br>
Another thing that I don't understand is why after inserting text from Notepad, Word keeps adding styles (such as Normal (web) ....), if Notepad does not transfer styles, where those (web) styles came from? Please see the attached screen capture.

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