Lots of mucking around for what should and historically has always been a very simple function which has never given me any trouble before. Instead I have to either make new text boxes and set a style manually for each (no quick keyboard shortcut action going on there) or use the eyedropper tool to copy the matching style of text if I'm lucky enough for it to be within the window view, but in most instances, this isn't the case and I have to zoom out, find the style appled to text so I can copy it and drop it nearby and then use the eyedropper tool. It's a real pain and hopefully will be fixed by Adobe soon because it slows down my workflow fairly dramatically when I don't have the option of quickly copying and pasting (in place) styled text boxes into particular positions on multiple pages of a document. Yes, I said linking, meaning that DocsFlow doesn’t just let you import the documents, it also lets you maintain links to them. What it ends up as is actually pretty random. Em Software a company with a very long history of plug-ins and add-ons has developed DocsFlow, a plug-in for linking google docs files into InDesign.

Its as if the very action of pasting text forces InDesign to destroy the size, colour, and weight of the font.

My particular issue is that if I copy, say, a formatted heading that I want to copy and paste into another heading text box, the formatting completely fails when I paste into the new text box. I have this error although it doesn't seem to create a missing font issue.

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