I have to take a break from this, now that I know that opening and closing tags are involved. This kind of stuff has come up many time (mostly by people who try to pretend that Word is some kind of HTML editor). It has always been a royal pain, ridiculously complicated and tricky to get right. It certainly moves it well away from the original impression of a normal string. Working with tags is not normal. They give me a headache.

I have to say that having such tags in the header at all is an abomination. Yuck. Bleeech. BTW, checking the order is not much help when you are also tossing textboxes into the mix. Bleeech.