Hi: ah yeah, I did in fact notice this. This was for a file to send off, and I said to the person it was sent to to report if there were any problems with it, and they didn't say there was. I'm thinking of writing to them again to make doubly sure it was OK. Interesting thing though, words that I saw missing were in fact in the file. Perhaps one program doesn't know the other's syntax. And as far as I'm concerned, as long as msword understands it, I'm not fussed. Geoff.