Hans van der Meer wrote:

After \def\Example{example} \Word{\Example} gives example So I need \expanded{\Word{\Example}} to get Example but \WORD{\Example}} does give EXAMPLE

I did not expect that. Is this the intended behaviour?

Well, expanding the argument of \Word automatically would not always be safe, so I guess it is unavoidable in current \TeX (the problem is that the \uppercase primitive is not expandable). Taco