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In article <1992Oct23.101641.9719@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, banks@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
|> Can anyone help?  I have set up a couple of Word 5.0 documents as
|> stationery templates with a logo and address in a header (I have set
|> them up as sys. 7 stationery documents, checking the box in the info
|> dialog, not as MS Word stationery docs).
|> 
|> They work fine, when I open them up and enter text directly, printing
|> out happily on my LaserWriter.  But often, when I cut/copy text from
|> another document and paste it in, the header vanishes.  This is not a
|> printing problem - if I paste the text into a template open in pageview
|> I can see the header vanishing in front of my eyes on the screen.
|> 
|> I assume I'm accidentally pasting in some formatting information from
|> the source document (which standardly has no header), but how can I prevent
|> it? It is irritating to say the least.
|> 
|> Marcus Banks
|> 
|> [SE30 5/40 running MS Word 5.0 under System 7.1.1]

You ran into a typical Microsoft trap!
The information about the header and the footer (!) of a section is
stored in the last paragraph of this section. The information not only
include styles, but also the text (!) of the header and the footer itself.
If you cut the last paragraph of a section into the clipboard, the header
and footer will also be cutted. If you paste the paragraph into another
document, the current header and footer will be overwritten by the information
in the clipboard.

This is what I call a bad trick. On one side you can easily replace the
header and footer of a document by just pasting the information from a
previously formatted document. But on the other hand there is a huge probability
that you ruin hours of formatting work.

Know-how from least MacUp.

Michael Kranz