Preserve style when pasting unused text/line from another score.

I am aware that there is a way to import style information via the "House Style" feature. But this can be a rather blunt instrument sometimes, changing many aspects of a score. Sometimes I just want to copy/paste one block of text from another score, and I'd like it to end up the same in the resulting score. If pasting the text into the target score results in using a particular style for the first time in that score, I would like to see Sibelius modify the attributes of the style in the target score to match the source, thus duplicating the visual look. This could be explicitly documented, so people could use it deliberately. Or if not documented, it would be pretty obvious to anybody paying attention. Already, if a text or line style that doesn't exist in the new score is copied over, the style is automatically created in the target score, and its attributes copied over from the source score, so that it can be used with the copied text/line. But in my case, I'm copying over a text or line that hasn't yet been used in the target score, but was already present in the default house style and/or my current house style. I might have customized something like Copyright, Boxed Text, Timecode, etc. And currently, when I copy over the element I want from another document, I have to go in and manually customize the style the same way I did in the older score, otherwise it doesn't look the same. So copying over style information on top of a previously unused style to me would be a big improvement.

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