Paul,

It works GREAT now - thanks so much. It handles blank first rows and runs much faster than my jalopy of a code. I can also run it repeatedly on the same file - before, the other code seemed to have a problem with a lot of tables, so I was copying blocks of text to the template file, running the macro, then copying the formatted tables back to the main document.

I don't understand all of it, but it does just what I wanted. Thank you again.