Ok, so you discover the cat and let it out of the bag. Thank you. But the problem with solutions like this is that if you have to edit the paragraph in any way it is going to ruin the effect. My friend who created the word add-in says" Only use the add-in when you are finished editing the doc (does that ever happen? That is why I would hope that M$oft would hard-code this capability. Publisher has it, InDesign has it so why can't Word have it?