Pasting Paragraphs (w/ paragraph styles) into New File

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May 3, 2023
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Hi,

A subconsultant mocked up a booklet with text and used the project fonts. They made a mistake and formated it 8.5x11 landscape instead of portrait.

I need to paste the text into my existing file format... HOWEVER, it appears they have manually modified the default paragraph style. Whenever I place it in my file it converts everything to the basic paragraph style (minion pro @ 12pt.). Is there a way to paste the text exactly how they have edited it??? I have never had this happen. Rebolding and working all of the text will be a nightmare...

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi @Joel Cherney ,

yes, breaking the style plus doing new paragraph styles out of the text that are based on the No Paragraph Style style would be the best option. Let's hope that the "damage", changing the [Basic Paragraph Style] away from its default, is not wide-spread and not done with other documents from the same source.

I'm burnt with that as well. Currently sitting over one hundred (or more) documents aquired from a client where exactly that was done a couple of years ago and the "virus" spread to even more documents company-wide. Everyone used them as templates for new projects.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

Barb Binder

Community Expert

You can either

change the orientation of their file, or
load the paragraph styles (including [Basic Paragraph]) into your new document using the Paragraph Styles panel menu.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

Rummaging around amongst the tools in the bottom of the toolbox, with all the other broken and halfway-useless bits, I find

select text in source document, go to the flyout menu of the Paragraph Styles panel and choose Break Link To Style, then copy and paste into target document.

This would convert all of the styling in your subconsultant's document into local formatting, which then should not affect anything at all when you paste it into your target document.

Steve Werner

Community Expert

If your subconsultant based their paragraph styles on [Basic Paragraph Style] and they are copied into your document which has a different definition of [Basic Paragraph Style], the text will inevitably change. There is the problem.

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