Hi Andrew, many thanks for your reply. The documents themselves come from external clients so they are not in-house templates unfortunately.

Your second macro when run debugs as per the image below. It does remove the bold but doesn't change them to italics.

I went back to trying the original code on one particular document and it debugs as per the image in my previous post and changes the cross ref digits to italics which is incorrect, only the cross ref headings in brackets should be in italics. So I changed the \w to \r and that put the cross ref digits back to how they should be but still didn't change the headings in brackets to italics. Hope that helps.

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