Hi Redpoint,

From your thumbnails, the text looks shaded to me, not bold. If this shading turns on/off as you select/deselect any of it, that suggests that what you have is a cross-reference field pointing to a location somewhere else in the document. These are used so that a change to the text in one place can be replicated in another without needing to type the same information in multiple locations. If you don't want the shading to appear when selected, or if you want it to show all the time, go to Word Options|Advanced > Show document content and change the 'Filed shading' option. Do note, though, that this will only affect how the document is displayed on your computer. How it displays on someone else's computer will depend on their computer's settings.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]