I'm not sure if AutoCorrect accepts asterisks as wildcards for replacing formatting. The length of the string between the symbols can vary from a few characters to even over a hundred characters, so only if AutoCorrect can identify the full string of characters between the symbols will it work. But, yes, I knew it was going to be a bit unreasonable developing something like this. I was thinking of using a hybrid technique with using asterisks and underscores to achieve the same result, will delve into looking in that direction since it is already available in Word.