I will look at my settings in 2013 and 2007 and see if I can find the problem; and I think I have a 2010 somewhere . . . . thanks for the heads up.At 24/02/2015 17:25, you wrote:Bill, FWIW, Autoformat works fine in Word 2010, except for the '_Why_?' issue. I have a hunch that the unpredictability results from interactions with other Word settings (my settings at home, Word 2013, are different from those at work), but have neither time nor inclination to verify or disprove it. -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx