I couldn't bring myself to imagine that you didn't know it''
However, I think the alternate usage (effectively a Right() without having to calculate the length is possibly less frequently used.

I can create a table programmatically with the desired results, it's just when it has all the other stuff involved with splitting out text and massaging it, that Word seems to go flaky.

Tony
PS Note usage of "seems"; I'm a firm believer that if a piece of system software "seems" not to be working, the first thing to examine is the conceptual understanding of the programmer who produced the anomaly