How to prevent formatting loss when I copy and paste?

[Penguin-]

Hi guys,

About a week ago my previously faultless MS Word 2007 has started confusing me:


I copy a body of text from a document which includes formatting (hyperlinks, bold, italics etc) but when I paste this text anywhere (including a Word document) all formatting is lost. (This includes cutting as well, so if I cut the text and paste it immediately back again, all formatting is lost)


As a writer this is driving me nuts as I have to manually reformat documents after uploading them online.


I have not knowingly made any changes to any program or browser that might have caused this to happen.
The file type is .docx


Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Slapshot136]

there is a "format painter" and a "special paste" that removes formatting, I would check the settings on both of those

 

[Penguin-]

Thanks for the reply but I've checked both of those settings.

Also the Options>Advanced>Copy and Paste are set as:

• Pasting Within the Same Document: Keep Source Formatting
• Pasting Between Documents: Keep Source Formatting
• Pasting Between documents when style definitions conflict: Use destination styles
• Pasting from other programmes: Keep Source Formatting

These settings alone should at least dictate that pasting in Word should be the same as when it was copied?



Problem resolved:
I've accidentally fixed it.

I discovered that the format removal only happens if I have Chrome running.
I disabled my Chrome plugins and it was the Skype plugin!
I've removed this and now everything is back to normal.


Feel free to close thread.
Thanks.