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delphis96 - 12 Oct 2006 23:19 GMT

Working with a team that has created a web application (javascript with
oracle back end). One of its functions is to auto-generate a document based
on a pre-defined template, using a custom Style. We currently copy the text
(stored as HTML in Oracle) from IE and paste it into the Word document. It
pastes successfully with all formatting intact, but does not pick up the new
Style. When we change the Style, all of the formatting is lost.

Is it possible to copy text from IE into Word (2003), re-style in Word, and
retain the formatting? Please help.

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Russ - 22 Oct 2006 06:57 GMT

Delphis96,
What is your custom style trying to do?
Maybe it needs to be defined as a character style based on (underlying
properties); then you set the character format style definition to only do
what it needs to do.
You must be careful on what the custom paragraph or character style is base
on, because, as it should, it inherits all the style of the style it is
based on plus any extra options you choose while defining it.

> Working with a team that has created a web application (javascript with
> oracle back end). One of its functions is to auto-generate a document based
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> Is it possible to copy text from IE into Word (2003), re-style in Word, and
> retain the formatting? Please help.

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