The styles in the two documents are NOT the same. Normal for instance is Arial in one doc and Nirmala in the other. You then have local formatting applied over the top of paragraph styles so that under the first heading you have three different fonts applied to the first three paragraphs.

You are wasting your time trying to achieve consistency when copy / pasting if your documents are full of inconsistencies in the first place. Remove all the local formatting and get your style definitions right if you want to get any control of this.

The fastest way to achieve consistency is to remove the local formatting. Do this by selecting all and resetting font and paragraph formatting. This is done by three consecutive keystrokes - Ctrl-A then Ctrl-Q and Ctrl-Space. There is a drawback on this method in that it will also remove some Character Styles that you probably want to keep applied but it is worth it to get back to a consistent state.

If that changes the look of your content (and it will), then you modify the style definitions to restore the formatting that you want. The aim is that the content is formatted ONLY by application of styles and NOT by local formatting like you currently have. Once your basic document formats are the way you want them, you can re-apply the Character styles to the footnote anchors and references.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia