Hi Bob,
BS>After working elsewhere in the document, I come
  >back to the above and find this:
BS>        texttexttexttexttexttext
  >        texttexttexttexttexttext
  >                             Xyy
  >                              yy
  >                              yy
  >                              yy
  >                              yy
  >                              yy
  >                              yy
  >                               y
  >              (Etc. until all "y's"
  >               are strung out vertically)
BS>If I delete the indent code and replace it immediately,
  >the format reverts to proper shape. However, it will
  >pop out again later while I am messing with something
  >elsewhere.
I *thought* that I was the only one this happened to. It seems that
columns aren't very stable and have never found what caused
the problem.  When working on documents that have a lot of
columns, I save often!
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