Thank you, that makes sense about the char styles and helps a lot.

As far as the tables go though, the people I work with are all upgraded
to 2002 or 2003 so that's not the problem. The table styles will
sometimes disappear WHILE I'm working on the document. Sometimes I'll
just save it and when it's done, the tables all revert back or take on
some other formatting. It's really bizarre.

Jodi