I have a document that I want to copy chunks of into another document, but 
when I paste it into the new document it completely changes the footer and 
doesn't match the original or the new documents' footers - does anyone know 
why this happens and how I can stop this happening please?

Hi Dawn,

If the material that you are copying contains any section breaks, those 
section breaks will be copied into your document along with the configuration 
of the headers and footers that are embedded within them. A section break may 
look like a little thing, but a lot of information is stored in it. When you 
copy a section break from one document into another, you create the section 
preceding it, and that section will have the headers and footers defined in 
the source document. 

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Hope this helps,
Pesach Shelnitz
My Web site: http://makeofficework.com 


"Dawn Cole" wrote:

> I have a document that I want to copy chunks of into another document, but 
> when I paste it into the new document it completely changes the footer and 
> doesn't match the original or the new documents' footers - does anyone know 
> why this happens and how I can stop this happening please?

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/PasteWithoutSectionInfo.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Dawn Cole" <Dawn Cole@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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>I have a document that I want to copy chunks of into another document, but
> when I paste it into the new document it completely changes the footer and
> doesn't match the original or the new documents' footers - does anyone 
> know
> why this happens and how I can stop this happening please?
>