Hi sk880user. I'm at work right now so I"m not near my wk8 nor do I have the manual with me but I think you can do what you are wanting to. I seem to remember you can choose what style you want to copy a variation to and from in the copy dialog. I seem to remember playing with this feature. I'm almost positive you can choose another style's variation from the copy dialog. I'm sorry I can't remember the details without the board in front of me. One thing comes to mind, if you are starting with a factory style, did you remember to first copy the whole style to a user style location. You need to do that to engage all the editing features otherwise some of the featires will be grayed out. Maybe Chris@gem can help us out here.