The Zoom ratio is also relevant.

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"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
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First, is the bold button in the formatting toolbar active? Is it showing
your text as bold?

The reason I ask is that certain screen fonts in certain sizes appear bold
on the screen, even though they are not bold.

Is this happening with saved documents, new documents?

Which version of Word?
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please could you help me. My Microsoft word has started opening with the
text
in 'Bold' where before it opened with the text in normal, not bold. how
can i
change this back. going in to the font settings and defaulting it does
not
work.

Thanks.