Thanks Rick -- at least I now know I haven't overlooked an existing function.
I'm trying to automate as much of the formatting as possible on a large document that is to include several thousand tables (it's currently largely unformatted). Hence my desire to minimize the amount of manual formatting involved!
What I'm trying to achieve is this:
1. Find every occurrence in the current document of the word 'Syntax', whose paragraph format is 'Heading 5'.
2. Select the whole of the next paragraph.
3. Convert this paragraph to a particular table format (FormatA, for the sake of argument).
If I can't directly convert the para, do I have to select it, cut it, create the table and then move the text into the table? (I was hoping there was a neater solution, but I'm not really bothered as long as it works!)
Thanks again