docm using the File Save procedure, the source document was not in Compatibility Mode but, the target document was. docm will paste into both of those as Content Controls (replicating your result). Sorry for the confusion my apparent OCD has created.Īfter your confirmation that it should work for newly created documents, I noticed that the target. My concern was that some leftover goop in the file was polluting the newly saved. It is likely irrelevant but, I was trying to be complete. I guess I should not have mentioned the Word 2003 origin of these files. I don't think the style definitions conflict because I copied them from one document into Normal.dot using the Manage Styles dialog and then from Normal.dot to each of the new. Pasting from other programs: Keep Source Formatting (Default) Pasting between documents when style definitions conflict: Keep Source Formatting (Default) Pasting between documents: Keep Source Formatting (Default) My settings in Word/File/Options/Advanced/Cut, copy, and paste are: Pasting within the same document: Keep Source Formatting (Default) Various permutations of Paste Special does not produce any improvement. It does not seem to matter if I copy whole paragraphs or individual content controls. docm, only the current value of the Content Control is copied. Key observations: When I copy the Content Controls within a. Name Control = 'Fred'), when I do the copy 'Fred' shows up in the target as plain text but, it is not a Content Control. If i add content to the Content Control in the source document (e.g. It just got the _ characters I used as Placeholder Text. docm file as only plain text (as though I had just typed the characters). docm file was the Placeholder Text from the first. However, the only thing that got copied from the first.

docm file using Maxey's add-in, I copied these working Content Controls from the first. Having successfully created a few Content Controls in the first. I'm just trying to save the trouble of recreating the same Content Controls repeatedly in these other files. I'm not worried about these controls being linked from one file to another at this time. Name and Date of Birth etc) will be used in many other files so, i want to simply copy the Content Controls that I develop to the other files as warranted. Specifically, changing the content in one Content Control causes changes to similarly named Content Controls in the rest of the document.Ĭontent Controls having like purposes (e.g.

I used Greg Maxey's Content Control Tools add-in to create the Content Controls and they seem to work as expected in the. Prior to my earlier post, I successfully added Content Controls to one of the files. docm files will save me a lot of time and reduce user confusion due to inconsistencies. docm file and copying the applicable Content Controls to subsequent. I have a bunch of them to do so, creating the Content Controls in one. These files will be used like forms and the functionality of Content Controls will be helpful to users. I'm modernizing copies of these files using Word in Office 365 (presumably Word 2019).īefore trying to add the Content Controls, I saved both documents as. Neither of them had Content Controls at the start of this effort. These documents were created in Word 2003 a long time ago. I really appreciate the contributions you have been making to the Word community. I've learned a lot from each of you over the years.

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