[Larry]

Here's a fun one.

1) In Word 2003, show the Styles and Formatting pane. Set its contents
to show Available Formatting.

2) Click in a styled paragraph in the document. Let's say the
paragraph style for that text is named XYZ. IMPORTANT: Ensure that the
font scale for style XYZ is something other than 100%. Modify the
style if necessary.

3) Confirm that there are no variants of XYZ showing in the Styles and
Formatting pane.

3) Insert a textbox at the cursor point.

4) Note that there now exists an "XYZ + Font: Character scale: 100%"
format in the Styles and Formatting pane.

5) Change the style of the paragraph (where the textbox is anchored)
to some other style -- call it "ABC" -- that also does NOT have a font
scale of 100%.

6) Note that the formatting "XYZ + Font: Character scale: 100%"
disappears from the Styles and Formatting pane, and that the
formatting "ABC + Font: Character scale: 100%" appears.

Now, aside from this being a heck of a lot of fun, it's also
undesirable behaviour. Any ideas how I can get it to stop? (VBA
solutions acceptable, I'm semi-fluent.)

TIA...
--larry