Hi Tom

Could you elaborate which entries you want in italics and which not? We
ought to know how *you* determin this before being able to come up with
an "algorithm" for Word.

Greetinx
.bob

As an exercise, I can think of a couple ways that might do this, but
they are probably a lot more trouble than you want.

Scheme 1:

Tag each entry. Put a single letter in another style (call it JTAG for
example) formatted as 1 point white text next to every occurrence of
your real style (call that Entry for example). The tags next to the
journals should be "J"; the tags next to the other entries should be
something else. In the header put something like this pseudocode:

{IF {styleref JTAG} = "J" "{Styleref "Entry" /*Italic}" "{Styleref
"Entry" }"}

Maintaining the tags would be a nightmare.

Scheme 2:

Get a friend (or pay someone e.g. Dieter Steffmann of Typographer
Mediengestaltung does good stuff) to make a special font that has
italic letters in some of the upper character positions. Use this font
for your Entries and for the STYLEREF fields in the headers. Job done.

You could convert your current text by using a find-and-replace macro
to change normal-Entry to the special font and italic-Entry to the odd
character positions.

The real problem is getting the special font.

There are probably other ways, probably equally unpalatable.

Bob S