It works. As you already knew; thanks! I'm so happy!

I'll just add a couple of comments--you can skip them, of course. It's just to add another example of what we ignorant people fight with, in case it's useful for anybody.

1. As mentioned, I'm working with (proofreading) a document in compatibility mode, written by somebody who has Word 2003. It's quite big and crashes now and then. I can't run the macro through the whole document; it produces error 5981, something like "could not open macro storage". I've run the macro through smaller chunks, chapter by chapter, and then it works. I wondered if it has to do with the .dot I'm using, but it's the same one, both for the big document and the small ones. I haven't created a master document, but maybe I should think about it.


2. I've suppressed ! and ? from the macro; double signs, ¿?, ¡!, should really be equal. I will manually correct …, which shouldn't be a problem in this document.

3. The "titles" mention was confusing, sorry. The Chicago Manual of Style is referring to titles of creative works, not Word titles.

4. In my previous message, I copied part of par. no. 6.3 to explain that nowadays it is good practice, at least in the English-speaking world that uses Chicago as a reference, to write punctuation as in the main text, not as in the immediately preceding word; 6.3 explains, though, that it's a recent change for them. But I don't want to do that; I want to do what is described in 6.5, the "traditional system", for aesthetic reasons, and because for the moment I really can't see a good reason for changing this particular traditional usage.

Now I have to go back to your site and learn more. It's a great place. Thanks again!