wow, thank you for the quick response!
I enabled Proportional Lining under the Opentype menu and yes! all figures are now UC as it were.
one question though, is there a way to have this as the default without using paragraph or character styles, so you dont have to select all the copy and enable this feature every time ?
ok so i re-read your post 
and now i have changed this under the default paragraph style. this is great but is there a way to have this as an 'application' based default. i.e. so when you create a new doc you dont have to amend the default para style each time ?
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