kiv: If you're going to insert images, please scale them down and crop away anything extraneous first. As for the background shading on copied text, you can be sure of eliminating that by using Paste Special and pasting as unformatted text. That way, its formatting will match whatever formatting is apples to the destination.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

how can i use paste special?

ok. i learned how to do. thanks.