Hi Charles,

I'm sorry to say that the Style Separator link you provided gave me a Trojan virus.

Also, this does not answer my question. I have been working with styles for years and am quite comfortable with them. I am also aware of the benefits of using Word's built-in styles (indeed, I am doing that in this very document, particularly to make pdf bookmarking easier).

Having said all that, my question from the OP stands. When I use Word's macro recorder to select a string of text and apply a built-in heading style, the resulting macro does not apply the heading style. I'm wondering if we can force this with some manual coding in the macro, but I'm not sure how.

Any assistance would be appreciated--preferably that does not give me a Trojan.