Paul, your answer is interesting. I would have thought that the automatic style update function would override copy and paste settings, or, perhaps, bypass them. I visualize the style-updating from template as a sort of background function not affected by the copy/paste settings. However, I don't doubt your knowledge.

That said, I should note that I have come to disregard the four choices in the advanced options to some extent, simply because in a number of cases, they have evidently not functioned as indicated, a problem I ascribe to the increasing complexity of Word's multiplicity of functions. In one case a few years ago, a colleague and I spent a half-hour wrestling with this before we discovered another "switch" in the options (I don't recall what it was), in a seemingly unrelated function, that affected how text was brought in.

Philip