If I sent a very simple InDesign Test file illustrating the problem via a yousendit.com link to your email address would that be sufficient?

Thanks again.

You're not using any special plugins, are you? How about a Windows utility that does something funny to the clipboard, like ClipMate or FreeClip?

Maybe you have a broken keyboard such that Shift is always depressed, and any ctrl-V would be a shift-ctrl-V?

And you thought Peter was grasping at straws  

Are you the administrator of your computer? Or are you on a business network where someone else has control?

I don't know which version of Windows you're on, but one possiblity is that you've accidentally turned on StickyKeys or one of the other accessability functions of Windows - check your Accessibility in Control Panel to see if it's on or not.

Thanks Joel and Peter for your help.

The problem resolved itself overnight.

FYI: I am not using any utilities affecting the clipboard.

Because it works correctly today I am leaning towards Joel's suggestion of a hardware problem. It is odd that typing text did not result in a Caps Lock looking condition, but using shift-ctrl-v today replicates the situation.

Previously I had restarted the computer, but had not done a complete shutdown.

RafaelQ - Do you have access to another keyboard? If so, the next test I would perform would be to shut down completely, replace the keyboard with another and see what happens after a restarting.

Now we are all grasping at straws!

Having the same issue with CS6 on Mac. I made an ad based on Basic Paragraph, and just styled each line separately since it wasn't worth making a style for each separate line.

But when I copy and paste the information into another ID document, the styles are reset to using whatever Basic Paragraph is in the destination document. This must be a bug. Surely Copy and Paste should always preserve formatting unless you do something to remove it?

The only way I've found to fix it is to click on each line in the ad and make a new style (just "ad1", "ad2" etc will work). Then when I copy and paste the lines of styled text, the formatting is pasted correctly. (So manual editing of Basic Paragraph seems to be the issue.)

Alternate: If the copy has "no style" then it also seems to copy and paste ok. So if I delete "ad1" and "ad2" etc and replace those styles with "No paragraph style" (with Preserve Formatting enabled), then when I copy this unformatted text and paste it, the formatting is intact. But there doesn't seem to be a way to select a bunch of manually edited text and say "no style", is there?

Then if it's as designed, there should be a way to "preserve" the manual formatting of the pasted text. Where is this option? How does one take a block of text that has been carefully formatted and paste it into a another document - without wasting valuable time reformatting it?

If this is "as designed' then there should be a way to override this behavior. Otherwise, this is really lame behavior to not give one the choice. Both Quark and Word will assume you want to preserve the formatting. Since it's so easy to convert text back to the original style and remove manual formatting, and quite onerous to re-style the text, the onus should be on preserving the text OR allowing a "special paste" option. As I said, really lame behavior.

Totally agree. I struggle with this as I end up doing multiple versions of the same document in different fonts. Even breaking link to styles did not work for me. Often 2 of us are doing the same project so I cannot coordinate us doing different names for our style sheets. I can never combine the different type solutions to one document. It erases everything that was styled differently. Ive had to drop pdfs into the doc instead as I can't get it to paste holding the change of style. Oh, I'm working in 5.5

Placing the indd reverts it to the styling done in that document. The pdf is the only thing that preserves the change of font. Similar to having a selection that over rides the previous styling because it's a pdf I'm dropping in. I wish I could just past with an over ride of styles existing in the document I'm pasting into.

I often have to do this to pick up and combine someone else's work for presentation. Yes I could keep then all separate I guess, but I'd like to keep it in one document to print once.

I am speaking of a document that was styled. Not in basic paragraph. Pasting into another document which was also styled, not in basic paragraph. Say I use one basic style sheet for these forms, then someone else takes my doc and just changes the font in each style sheet to see it in different fonts. Then we want to paste them in one doc to present and compare. I want to over ride the existing style and paste without it changing.

Wow, thank you. I have never used "place" for an entire indd. I have always pasted and guess use the term too loosely interchanging the term with placed. I've learned something new today and I thank you again.

Was having the same issue. Break link to style worked beautifully, when pasting into a new document and preserving the formatting. I've used it within the doc before but never for this particular thing. Thanks for the tip!

You've been a fabulous resource. ( :