[TrevorG]

Thanks for the response.
I have tried this extensively since, tried deleating normal.comx and
recreated styles in a variety of ways, but I still find character based
styles behave unpredictably.
The major problem seems to revolve around italics. A style which has plain
style will suddenly have italics and styles with italics will suddenly appear
upright.
I can only conclude that there are some bugs in Word 2007 handling of
character based styles.
Trevor
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Office Pro 2007