I am so mystified. I have the most boring legal document in the world. No bold in it anywhere (that might liven things up!).

I mark my TOA entries in the document. They are not bolded.

I generate my TOA.



SOME (and not consecutive ones, either!) of the entries come in bolded.

I can't find BOLD in the text. I can't find BOLD in the TOA styles. I can't find bold ANYWHERE AT ALL.

But there it is.

ZOmbie Bold. Or Poltergeist Bold?

Anyone with any ideas on this?

Ooh. Fun fact is that I inherited this document from someone else who (to keep with the theme, here) Frankensteined the document together from parts of many other documents.

Again, though... no bold. The spaces between the words aren't bolded. The words aren't bolded. NOTHING is bolded.

Except the occasional display of an entry in the actual TOA.

Hi emily,

It may be that someone has overridden the Styles of some of the document content so that what the Style says should be bold isn't. It may be that's what is affecting the TOA entries. Check whether there's any difference in the Style definitions for the content contributing to the bold/regular text entries in the TOA.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi, again.

Thanks for your suggestion.

I looked at the text in the document to see how it is formatted directly. There was no direct formatting with bold.

When I look in the styles that were controlling the text in the document, there was no formatting with bold.

When I look in the styles that are controlling the TOA, there is no bold.

I am thinking this document maybe should be used as evidence for alien invasions. Adam Curry needs it for his stash in the morning.

The firm that owns the document isn't comfortable with me pulling it down to my local machine, so I may have to give up on this... but if anyone else has seen this before, I would love to hear about it.

I *hate* not being the all powerful answer person.

Such a control freak.

Thanks!