Hi,

When we receive documents for editing, they have some styles. We override them with our own custom styles but every now and again (depends on the client) this does not work; the line/paragraph spacing is wrong and is ignoring what is set in our styles.

If I highlight all text and 'clear formatting' this does not work either; when I set our styles after this it's still wrong.

Does it exist that the document itself can have a base style, and everything else is inherited from that. What I mean is if the document is set to exactly 10pt line spacing, and one of our styles is set to 22pt, does it become 32pt?



This means line numbering is totally messed up. Our industry charges per page for submitted documents so this is absolutely critical.

The ONLY way I have found to fix this is by copy/pasting as text only into a new document, then setting styles from there (which I why I asked about a document base style). This works 100% of the time, but it loses tables, formulas etc. so we end up basically having to re-style the whole thing bits at a time. These documents can and regularly do exceed 100's of pages.

I need to be able to delete all formatting from the original at the document level, not at the highlighted text level.

The example on the left is the original (wrong), and the right is the copy/pasted as text only (right). You can see the line spacing after paragraph mark, and generally between lines, is bigger on the left document, despite both documents using exactly the same style.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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