Thanks for all this. Far too complicated for me to consider at this stage of my document preparation. I have more than 100 documents prepared on almost 100 computers. Anyway, the problem is not with words or phrases that are italic in the Word document and intended to be italic in Indesign - they are transferring exactly right. It is that two letters in one word have changed from regular text in Word to become bold in the Indesign document. And that two little words that are regular in Word are now italic in Indesign. However, a little further investigation of Word styles is warranted as it appears that Normal style in the current test document, created on a computer in the Seychelles, is well out of step with the Normal style on this machine. Tidying that up appears to have stopped the bolding issue but the italics problem remains. More tests to be done. Thanks for suggesting new directions.
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