Good morning, Paul. I'm always grateful for your generous assistance and expertise in this forum. Your answer this time, however, leaves me a little perplexed. I generally avoid Normal, at least in the proposal work, nearly all of which is based on custom templates. In any case, since Autoformat has to do with generating headlines, bullets, etc., in Normal text, my reading of your response suggests that the autoformatting would not do so.

To be clear: Most people are unaware of styles and simply type and format as best they can-- Normal by default. Autoformat prompts Word to turn certain typographic cues into list, headline, and other styles from Normal. Thus, I don't understand your saying that Preserve Styles prevents this when Autoformat is run.

I'm sure I'm just not understanding you properly.

Thanks,
Philip