Beth....it must be some style you have set for italics. Check the styles in Format>Styles and see if one of them has italics attached to it and remove that. Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ECarmona@xxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:22 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] italics in word Hi, Lately when I am working in Word - and I begin to type some of my letters and words are in italic - and I don't have that option on. I can write one or two sentences and then the format goes to regular type - without me doing anything. Then it repeats itself in a new paragraph. Any suggestions as to why this is happening? Thank you in advance, Beth ecarmona@xxxxxxx ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************