Are you saying that you can not see the bookmark indicators?
Tools, Options, View, bookmarks. The reason you see the text
inside the bookmark when the Show/Hide is displayed is because
text formatted as hidden displays when the Show/Hide is toggled.

What I would do, to create a similar bookmark:

1. Type the text I want inside the bookmark.
2. Format the Font for Hidden
3. With the text still selected, Insert the bookmark using the
same name as the typed text.

Let me know if I understood your question correctly.

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I have an existing Word 2002 document that I want to create a
bookmark for
every subsection. I did not create the document and it is a
document that has
evolved from Word 4 (back in the olden days) to Word 2002.

When I select show/hide I see the follwing text for a subsection
bookmark:
Bookmark:204B. I do not understand why I can't take the existing
subsection
text and create a bookmark.

I select Insert/Bookmark. I then get a Bookmark dialog box. I add
the
bookmark and there is nothing that shows that I added a bookmark
to the
document.

What did I do wrong? This should not be this hard to do.
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Bob