Hi ?B?THlsZUJfQXVzdGlu?=,

Didn't solve problem directly but got me pointed in the right direction.
Somewhere along the way a different template must have gotten attached to the
target document. For that template, "Normal" text was defined as bold and
underlined. Not sure how it happened, but I think I can clear this up now so
it won't keep happening.

Excellent. Here are a couple of thoughts:

1. My first thought was that the formatting was carrying over from something
you'd just pasted in previously. That's something to keep in mind (and is why I
mentioned the Ctrl+Spacebar)

2. By default, in some versions of Word, the "update automatically" option is
activated for the Normal style. This means, if you format text with bold, the
Normal style will also have "bold" in it. If the style is also set to update
back to the template, this could be a source of the problem.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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