Hi Tim,
I don't know about other Office products or IE but check the following:

Format, style,
there will be a named style that you may have created/changed at the top.
the default is Normal, then press Modify button, see if Italic got into the mix.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"Tim" wrote in message ...
I am not able to unitalicize Arial in Excel. This started happening in IE
last week and now I see it in Excel. I had to force IE to use Times and
ignore text formatting on pages which sort of fixes it.
It looks like all the other fonts will toggle italics no prob.