Case sensitive style names

[ChrisGreaves]

In this Microsoft.com thread of January 7, 2013 is a discussion of case [in]sensitive style names in MSWord. I have not progressed beyond Word2003.

When you assign a style to text using VBA, the lines
Selection.Style = "Heading 1"
and
Selection.Style = "heading 1"
have the same effect: both assign the built-in style "Heading 1" to the text. This also holds for custom styles: if you create a style named "tomato", but not a style named "TomaTo", the line
Selection.Style = "TomaTo"
assigns the "tomato" style to the text, you don't get an error message that "TomaTo" doesn't exist.

To date has anyone here any evidence that MSWord(any version) style names have been, or will be, case-sensitive?

I ask because I am about to force case-insensitivity on a style-searching function, as in "UCase everything in sight during the search".
Thanks
Chris

[HansV]

As the OP in that thread remarked, it turns out that it is possible to create different styles named mystyle and MYSTYLE (and MyStyle etc.)

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Although I still think this is a bug, you should not assume that style names are case-insensitive.
So you'd have to search twice: first, case-sensitive. If not found, then search case-insensitive.

[kdock]

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Let's call the whole thing off!

[HansV]