Open new document/copy and paste a sentence with itals from a file where TC did track correctly/delete itals-tracked. Open new document/copy and paste a sentence with italics from troublesome file/delete itals-not tracked, although the TC options were set to track formatting. I misled you slightly, I think, without meaning to. MS isn't supporting W2010 any more but I'm sure I saw a Win7 update the other day maybe I should uninstall that, although as it was a purely security-oriented update I don't want to. I have been using this for 10 years, on documents professionally (publisher) formatted, documents formatted by highly organized nonprofits, and documents prepared by publishing amateurs, and I have never seen this before.