Hi, Arthur. Turn off "automatically update" in your style definitions.
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm
for more information.

Arthur McPhee wrote:
why does the whole page go to bold when I select Bold for the title, this
also happens if I want to change a font size.

I have just installed Office 2003 onto my Laptop, my desktop works fine.