Thank you macropod - each cell does indeed (on occasion) have more than one paragraph - usually it's just the one, but I see one example of 11 paragraphs (that one includes a numbered list, with each entry containing a paragraph of text) - in every case it is only the first row, second column, that may have multiple paragraphs. Incidentally, this cell is also the least likely to be missing periods, so a code that checked only rows 2-4 of each table would do the job! If that helps!
Could this also be causing issue with my column-width macro?
Thanks again!