thanks for the input. I thought perhaps the **word** might have been my issue as I use ** as a change indication. So perhaps 2 instances bumped around a word that I wasn't seeing. But, alas, I changed ** to >. Still corrupts the note when change is made on the Android and saved.
Tried Simplify Formating on the Mac as well as the Android. Still the same. Darn the Luck ! ! !
Odd thing here is, as soon as I touch the Android version of the note to edit, the formatting goes away, even before the save.