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!

Try a different font and see if the problem goes away. If that works, the font file could be damaged.

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Ok, thanks for the tip. I'll give that a shot!

Well, no that didn't do it. I changed it from Times New Roman to Calibri, and the same thing is still happening.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Ok, I think I've identified the fact that it's only happening on this current file I'm writing. This was a case in which I'm writing a second edition to one of my older books. I had long lost the original text file, so I scanned in the pages of the book (only 48 of them) and saved them as "editable text." I went through and cleaned up the occasional mistake it made from scanning and cleared the formatting to start from scratch. Then I started editing/adding new text and formatting as I went. It was some time during that process that the problem started showing up.

Thinking that this might have something to do with it (the fact that it was scanned text), I copied the entire document and pasted it into a new document using the "paste special" function as "unformatted text." I went through and started formatting this new document, but now the problem has surfaced again still.

So I don't know what to do. I'm now going to try to send it to my wife's computer to see if it does it on her's too. I think she's running Office 2013.

One more piece of information I just found discovered: it's only happening in Draft view. When I switch to Print Layout or Full Screen Reading, it's not happening.

If I remember correctly, I was having another issue with Draft view before with regards to inserted page breaks not showing up. Anyway....

If it only affects one document, that document may be corrupt. Try this: Click the ¶ button on the Home tab; this displays nonprinting marks. Go to the very end of the document and press Enter to add a new paragraph. Word adds a new paragraph mark (¶). Now copy everything except for the paragraph you just added and paste into a new blank document.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional