Problems with Autoformat as you type

[bolpom]

I am experiencing problems using Autoformat as you type.


I am not able to achieve the following effects:

• headers (levels 1,2,3) selected by enters and tabs.
• date conversion.
• system tracking and 'learning' my formats. I am not too clear what this is meant to do, but it sounds an appealing feature.

I have all the options set in Autoformat as you type.
It doesn't seem to make any difference whether or not I have Keep track of formatting checked,.

This is odd because in the past level 1 headers and date conversions seemed to work. Is there some subtle interaction?

I find that some Autoformat as you type features work fine: ordinals, bold, italic, brackets, quotation marks, quotes, lists of various types, indented paragraphs and indented first lines.

EDIT: The dates seem to be recognised correctly as dates: it is just that the format does not change.
The headers are not recognised as headers.