On 15-May-2005, brendan wrote:

How can I bold a symbol in an Equation object in Word 2003?

What you quoted from the Help file should have worked, except
that it's not necessary to first select the part of the equation
you want to be bold. With Equation Editor open, Word's menu bar
becomes the Equation Editor menu bar. The Style menu is what
controls the fonts, as well as bold & italic settings. Click on
Style Define and make sure "Bold" is checked for all settings.
This will make the entire equation bold, not just part of it.
(Fraction bar thickness is controlled in the Format Spacing
dialog.)

The professional version of Equation Editor -- MathType -- has
two user-defined style settings (as well as two user-defined size
settings). Using these settings, it is possible, for example, to
make a divide symbol bold and the rest of the equation "normal".
You can download a free evaluation copy of MathType at the link
in my signature.

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