Text appears bold when it is not

[famous beagle]

Hi everyone, this is my first post here. I'm hoping someone can help me with this issue. This is really annoying.

I'm using Word 10 32-bit on Windows 7 64-bit.



At times in a Word document, a paragraph (or several) will appear bold, even though it hasn't been formatted that way. If I move my cursor through the text, it won't show it as bold in the tool bar.

The only way I've gotten this to go away is by highlighting the paragraph and then moving the cursor. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I think it goes away (temporarily) by just scrolling through the document.

The problem is totally inconsistent as far as I can tell. In other words, it's not always the same paragraph that does this in one document. And even after I "fix it" with the above highlight trick, it will usually happen again.

Any clue as to what could be causing this?

Thanks!