DS>  I have the "a" version.  I have gotten several suggestions
DS> as to how to  handle the situation should it arise again. 
DS> It just would have been  nice is I could have had a method
DS> of seeing exactly where the codes to  set that font had been
DS> and edit them out.
Dale,
I led you down the wrong path.  The bug I mentioned had to do with conversion 
of Wordperfect documents to Word. It manifested itself as different 
formatting in the numbers of paragraphs.
I used Wordperfect for five years and have used Word for 3 years. The problem 
you mention is the one thing that has always frustrated me because I simply 
could not understand the underlying document construction that caused it.
My normal haughty response to "can't see the codes" is "You've got to quit 
thinking like Wordperfect -- Word doesn't work that way".  But when it comes 
to numbered paragraphs, I couldn't explain how to "think like Word".
Only recently have I learned something that's important to the understanding 
and I feel like a light turned on.  I have always thought of Word styles as 
paragraph styles and I forget that it also has character styles.
The default paragraph style is called NORMAL.  Embedded in the NORMAL style 
is a character style called "Default Paragraph Font".  All of this 
information is manipulated in the paragraph mark for each paragraph.
In your example, you said you added some text at the end of the paragraph and 
set it for bold underline italic (BUI).  I'm sure that you inadvertantly 
included the paragraph mark (which was invisible at the time) when you 
applied these attributes, thus you changed the default character attributes 
for the paragraph.  The style for the number on the paragraph is set by the 
paragraph character style attributes.  You cannot get to the number character 
format any other way.
This explains why Laurence's solution of manipulating the paragraph mark 
works.  Next time this happens, turn on paragraph marks, highlight the 
paragraph mark and apply the style "default character font".  That will reset 
the attributes for the number back to the default for your document.
This understanding has eliminated one of the gaps in understanding I have had 
and I feel like I now have more control over Word.
Bob
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