Susan, Glad it's now on the radar. In this instance, I had a blank line above the line that needed to be centered. As an experiment, I applied centering to the blank line, but it still didn't help. So I gather a previous paragraph must contain text. In the meantime, I gather I can create a Word style of my own and map it to a DBT style as [hds0]...[hde]. Should that work? Jean