Hi Carol,
> Using Word 2000 with SP-3:
>
> When I try to make text italic I get <I> in place of the
> word(s) selected. It used to work properly, but at some
> point started behaving badly.
HOW are you trying to apply italic? With the keyboard? Or a
toolbar button? Or...?
My guess is that you have a macro assigned to whichever
command you're using that's inserting the HTML tag to start
italics formatting.
Cindy Meister

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