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Copy/Paste with formatting
Hello. Sometimes I need to pull a page or 2 out a longer document and put into a document by itself. This selection will have 2 columns, a column and/or a section break.
Of course I want the formatting to come with the selection. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't and I can't remember the sequence I thought "Keep source formatting" in Advanced Options when pasting within or between documents would do it but not reliably for me. Is there anything special in Ctrl-C Ctrl-V? Ken |
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The key to column formatting is a section break before and after. One starts the columns, the other ends them. Usually, these are continuous section breaks.
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Ah, even to take the section break along from the page before into the new stand-alone document. Yes, that seems to have helped preserve the page formatting.
Ken |
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Columns are creatures of sections. When you change from one number of columns to another there is a section break. Likewise to change back.
Section breaks have other information as well, like headers and footer setup and content. |
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The general "rules" for sections are summarized in the article Working with sections.
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Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Microsoft 365 apps for business Windows 11 Professional |
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