[quote user="lhhesscpa"]That's very helpful. There were spaces after some entries. When I removed the space the entry worked as expected. There was no punctuation. Doe that have the same effect?[/quote]

I suspect that it would (although I haven't tested it) - the auto-formatting is triggered when you type a space or punctuation after a word in your message.

I've addred phrases to the automatic formatting list but they aren't always activated. Any suggestions?

Are they unique? and are you putting a space or punctuation after them?

That's very helpful. There were spaces after some entries. When I removed the space the entry worked as expected. There was no punctuation. Doe that have the same effect?