How did you accomplish copying the contents into a new document? If you did a simple cut and paste, the formatting went along for the ride.



Try opening the Style Pane, selecting the entire document, then select Clear All at the top of the Style pane. That will clear all formatting, so that everything will revert to Normal.

Then copy & paste and format as necessary.

Hope this helps!

Thanks so much, I shall try this! In terms of copy and paste, I did try to paste with "no formatting", but I guess I got things a bit wrong a time or two!

PS Hmmm, just tried this and it's not worked. Even though I load the right style set, it's still got old stuff in there. Which is weird because, when opening it in other documents, it's absolutely fine.

Andie, Did you look at the links I provided?


I agree with Stefan that I have not been able to get numbering to work reliably using [Quick] Style Sets. A template is the simplest solution. Otherwise, I've been able to use the Organizer to copy paragraph styles set up following Shauna Kelly's instructions and transferred the numbering that way reliably. Again, that is described and demonstrated in the links I provided.

Hi Charles,

I must confess I didn't - but hopefully they may help other people in the future.

I think I've sorted it by following the steps here: How to Change an Existing Style in Word 2016 - dummies

But thanks so much for all your help, everyone. I really appreciate it, and will be sure to use the forum heaps in the future.