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FP2000: Dragging or Pasting Text from Excel 2000 Removes Formatting

Article ID:219659
Last Review:May 23, 2003
Revision:2.0
This article was previously published under Q219659

SYMPTOMS

When you paste or drag a cell or cells from Microsoft Excel 2000 into a new page in FrontPage 2000, the formatting styles for the text in the cell are lost.

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CAUSE

Excel creates an embedded style sheet that writes the formatting code for the document. When you copy or drag a formatted cell or text from an Excel document into a FrontPage document, the embedded style sheet is not copied.

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RESOLUTION

When you paste or drag a cell from Excel 2000 into FrontPage 2000, you need to either reformat the information in FrontPage or follow these steps:
1.Open Microsoft Word 2000 and click New Blank Document on the Standard toolbar.
2.In Excel, select the text you want inside the cell or cells.
3.Drag the text into the new document you created in Word.
4.Select the text in Word.
5.Drag the text into the page you want in FrontPage.

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APPLIES TO
Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition

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Keywords: 
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