Merging 2 documents: pasting does not merge formatting

[village]

Hello All,



I have 2 separate word documents which have with several headings and subheadings.
I would like to merge the styles when I paste the documents however, the new merged documents does not keep the division in heading and sub-heading, which become normal text.

Here is the document that I want merge which has the structure



and here is when I merge it when my destination document.



the text keeps the numbering but is not formatted and as consequence the navigation pannel does not show all the sections.

suggestions?!?!

[macropod]

See: https://support.office.com/en-us/art...0-FB9CE15BF3D6. You'll note that the ambiguous 'merge formatting' description is no more; it's now more appropriately called 'Match Destination Formatting'. Check your paste options in Word, too (File|Options|Advanced>Cut, copy, paste>Pasting between documents); it seems you have them set to paste the text only - which obliterates any Style information.

[village]

Hello and thanks for your reply.

The voice "match destination formatting" is not available

[macropod]

As I said, it's been renamed in later versions.

[village]

ah sorry, I missed that .
Ok, I am reformatting manually ....

Thank you as always.

[Charles Kenyon]

To have things show up in the navigation pane, they must use the built-in heading style or styles based on them.


Why use Microsoft Word’s built-in heading styles? by Shauna Kelly