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I am having a problem with MS Word 4.0 that is driving me totally *nuts*.
I hope that somebody can help me - the manual doesn't.

I have a style, called 'Reference'. The *only* way in which it differs from 
my 'Normal' style is in that it changes some ruler stuff (indentation and
right margin to be precise).

Now I do not write my references in Word itself: I import them, formatted
and all (i.e. with titles in italics etc.) from the program EndNote. This 
works perfectly, except that usually the text gets pasted in 'Normal' style.

So I want to change styles to 'Reference', and this is where it all
goes wrong: for a number of the 'Normal' paragraphs, MS Word will
lose *all* font style information when changing the paragraph style
to 'Reference'.

What is making me go crazy is that I have not the faintest idea about
*what* the criterion is for this to happen.
95 % of the paragraphs reformat correctly. The other 5 % don't.
I have no clue as to why. Sometimes if you insert e.g. seven random
plain characters after the second '^n' in such a paragraph, then the 
reformat will work.
In this it behaves consequently - insert 1 to 6 characters and
reformatting causes plain text, insert 7, and it always works OK.
But that doesn't work for all the paragraphs in the 5 %, and I really
am on the verge of a major nervous breakdown here.

Can anybody *please* explain what is happening to me? I don't even
want to know a solution, I just want to know why it is happening!

Thanks...

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Leo Breebaart  (leo @ duttnph.tudelft.nl)