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Resolve style conflicts using paste options

Resolve style conflicts using paste options

From the course: Cert Prep: Word 2016 Microsoft Office Expert (77-726)

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Resolve style conflicts using paste options

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- [Narrator] Let's talk about how to resolve style conflicts when you're pasting information from one document to another. Now it's not unusual at all to combine text from two or more documents, and it can be frustrating if the text in each of the documents is formatted differently, and then you paste it in and it doesn't match your current formatting. I'm going to show you how to use the paste options, so that you can choose to use the destination formatting so that when you paste that information in, it picks up the formatting automatically for you. We'll also look at how to keep the source formatting, so if you want to maintain the formatting that was in the original document, you can certainly paste it in and your formatting will be different from your destination there. I'll show you how to merge the formatting, and how you can keep the text only. A lot of the times it's easier just to scrub all the formatting from the text when you paste it in, and then reapply the formatting in…

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