For example, the remarks may be: "Please enclose a copy of
your birth certificate when mailing in the forms." Here I
would want "birth certificate" to be bold.   OR   "Be sure
to cross at the green, not in between." Here I would
want "green" in italics.   This is to say that the entire
remarks change and I cannot say that the 5th word should
be bold or that the 11th word should be italics. This
changes with each remark.

It seems to me that I need a code of some kind to put in
the vb code behind the template form. It would be nice if
it were as easy as:  "Be sure to cross at the
BOLDONgreenBOLDOFF and not in between." But life is never
so easy.

Thanks in advance for your help.
-Marty

I omitted a rather important line in the suggested routine:

With Selection
    .HomeKey unit:=wdStory
    With .Find
        .ClearFormatting
        .Text = "(XXX)(*)(XXX)"
        .MatchWildcards = True
        With .Replacement
            .ClearFormatting
            .Font.Bold = True
            .Text = "\2"
        End With
        .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    End With
End With

We do something similar. We build a document from a database and need to
have special formatting for certain words. We use something like XXXPhrase
to be boldedXXX and then use a wildcard search and replace.

With Selection
    .HomeKey unit:=wdStory
    With .Find
        .ClearFormatting
        .Text = "(XXX)(*)(XXX)"
        With .Replacement
            .ClearFormatting
            .Font.Bold = True
            .Text = "\2"
        End With
        .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    End With
End With

HTH