( Hint: If you use fields a lot and need to know where they are in your document, turn on the option to always show them shaded in gray. Go to Format, Borders and Shading (Word 2002-2003) or click the Border drop-down in the Paragraph section of the Home tab of the Ribbon (Word. To get rid of it: Place your cursor into the paragraph immediately preceding the line. It should now hold for any future updates of that field. The line youre seeing across the page is a paragraph border that Word has automatically inserted using AutoFormat. Select the cross-reference field, and manually change the formatting to what you want it to be (remove the bold, make the font smaller or larger, or whatever formatting is ‘out of whack’).The P reserve formatting during updates check box should be checked - check it if it’s not, then click OK.
I’m not sure what causes it but here’s how to fix it: Or perhaps you’ve inserted the cross-reference in a table but the font used in the table is smaller than that used in the body text, yet the cross-reference displays in the larger font.
Sometimes you’ll add a cross-reference to a figure or table, and part of it (the number usually) will display in bold text.