I finally got it to work. I tried everything and did exactly the same things to another document and it worked fine. I do think taking the brackets off helped, but may not have been the whole problem. I'm dealing with some macros and scripts that are black boxes. I hate black boxes. But it did work and I have documented the process carefully. So hopefully this strangeness will not happened again. It was a one-document problem, thank goodness. Now fixed, although I'm not entirely sure how.