With natural language commands enabled you can now say things like "italicize Oakes through 123". Since the vocabulary editor does not support the function of the italicizing I think the alternative would be to create this is a text note were italics was captured as an element of the note; you might need to adjust the properties in the Command Browser since I do not believe text notes currently allows for advanced formatting. -ed. -----Original Message----- From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of robert fenton Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 5:52 PM To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [j-say list] My Words Utility Hi Everybody: I would like to see a feature wherein it would be possible for a user to italicize certain text within a larger group of text that is to be produced when a single utterance is made. For example, if I want to cite a case called Oakes v. The Queen, [1986] 1 S.C.R. 123, with the phrase Oakes citation in the my words file, I would like to be able to italicize the words Oakes v. the Queen but not the rest of the citation. Is this achievable? Thank you very much for your assistance. Bob Fenton