Thank you, Peter, for your reply. It does help. I will try left alignment. Let me know if you want me to give you a sample of the document (trimmed down to the problem area) to isolate the possible bug.
I'm still trying to understand this DTP thing. Since this is my first real document, I am fiddling with the styles as I go, trying to get things to look as I want them to. I guess I've combined creating the template and the document which is not the normal work flow. When you are working on a document, do you do a lot of local styling once the text is imported and styled via the document styles? In my example of a book title, the italics aren't so much prettying up the look as applying proper "punctuation." In other areas, I want to put selected words in bold to set them apart. Is that normal in DTP or am I still thinking too much in word processing? Thanks for your help, Carol -- ====================================================================== Carol Kankelborg
