I am working with Word 2003 Beta 2.

If I am editing an XML document and I select an empty tag
pair (like <emphasis></emphasis>) and press Control+B to
make it Bold, and then place the caret between these
elements and start typing, I'd like the typed characters
to be Bold but they come in as non-Bold.

I think most end-users will expect these characters to
come in as Bold.  As an example... Users may create XML
templates where the user must fill in the contents of
empty tags.  They may want to apply character styles to
the empty tags so the user's text appears styled.

Perhaps this is a behavioral change that can be made
before Word 2003 is officially released.

Thanks

Sam Brow