Making Bookmarks Bold

If you have quite a few bookmarks in your documents, you may want to highlight them, perhaps by making them bold, so that you can see them better. Word provides a direct way to highlight bookmarks, all you need to do is choose Tools | Options | View tab, and then make sure the Bookmarks check box is selected. If you are using Word 2007, then you click the Office button | Word Options | Advanced and make sure the Show Bookmarks check box is selected (it is in the Show Document Content section of the dialog box). The result is that any bookmarks in the document are surrounded by [brackets]. These don't print, but only appear on-screen and are very helpful in visually locating the bookmarks.

If you actually want to make the bookmarks bold, one approach is to create a special character style to be used for bookmarks. You could set the style to be bold, and then apply it to all your bookmarked text.

You can also use a macro to make your bookmarks bold. The following macro will step through each bookmark in a document, and make its text bold:

Sub BookMarks2Bold()
    Dim bm As Bookmark
    Dim tx As Range

    Set tx = ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdMainTextStory)
    For Each bm In tx.Bookmarks
        bm.Range.Bold = True
    Next
End Sub

If you later want to turn off the bold attribute for bookmarks, you can do so by changing True to False in the line that actually does the property assignment.