Copy / paste text boxes across documents, formatting changes automatically in the text boxes

Question

Hello!

So I have to use specific forms for my work and I cannot control how the documents are created. These forms involve a lot of text boxes which are formatted so that the text does not overflow or run out of the boxes. We want to start using these forms with our Model Driven PowerApps/Dynamics 365. When copying and pasting from the Word document form to a template created by Dynamics 365 templates function the original formatting changes.

What changes: font type, font size, line spacing before and after increase, styles (that is all I discovered at this time).

What I have tried:

Changing the advanced paste settings

Changing the receiving document's format

Making it into a macro (it still changes formatting, maybe I haven't done this properly).

All the different paste options

It is very frustrating because we have hundreds of forms, and if we have to manually change each one, we will have to expend a tremendous amount of time.

I think the problem may involve the normal.dotm that we used to create the forms vs. the one used by Dynamics 365 to generate the Template. If this is the case, we have not been able to figure out how to modify the normal.dotm that Dynamics 365 uses to generate those Templates. If this not the reason, then PLEASE HELP!!! Thank you.

PS I did see there was a similar post regarding this issue created on June 10, 202 by Janneke24, but the thread was locked and a solution was not posted.

Answer 1

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What changes: font type, font size, line spacing before and after increase, styles (that is all I discovered at this time).

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PS I did see there was a similar post regarding this issue created on June 10, 202 by Janneke24, but the thread was locked and a solution was not posted.

A link to the previous post might help those trying to help you.

Hello Gregg,

I am not familiar with Dynamics 365. Sorry for my ignorance on that.

I do not believe that there is an Answers forum devoted to that.

There is a sister platform Microsoft Q&A that might be of more help.

Thoughts:

The things you mention could well be controlled by a Quick Style Set and a Theme.

Find out which Set and Theme are being used in the source document and apply those to the destination document. Paste using destination styles.