There is something going on in that document I don't understand and can't really explore as I don't have the Rachana font. However, it appears the text surrounding your autotext is formatted as bold but the autotext is not. Accordingly, it appears you've overridden the Normal Style's format with a bold font but the autotext is respecting the Style definition. Even so (for me), toggling the bold property of either or both of the autotext and the surrounding text doesn't seem to have any effect; neither does changing the Style definition, but that all may be because I don't have the Rachana font.

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Paul Edstein
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