You can use Word's Replace command to do this, if you don't mind having the
 brackets themselves bolded along with the text between the brackets.

1. Click Replace on the Edit menu
2. Click MORE to display the full dialog box.
3. Check the USE WILDCARDS checkbox
4. In the Find What box, type (\<*\>)
5. In the Replace With box type \1
6. While the cursor is still in the Replace With box, click Format and select
 Font, then click Bold and click OK.
7. Click Replace All

My undying gratitude to Wolfgang Hutter for showing me how to do this. I still
 have a message from him taped to my monitor!

In case you care, here's what the Find What and Replace With strings mean:

Find What: (\<*\>)

Since you're using wildcards, the parentheses mean "This is an expression that
 I want to retain when I do the replace."

\ means the next character is NOT a wild card, but just a character I'm looking
 for. In this case, a less-than sign.
< means less than sign
* means find any string of characters
\ means the next character is NOT a wild card, but just a character I'm looking
 for. In this case, a less-than sign.

\<*\> means look for a less than sign followed by any string of characters
 followed by a greather than sign.

(\<*\>) means look for a less than sign followed by any string of characters
 followed by a greather than sign AND SAVE THE EXPRESSION FOR RE-USE AFTER YOU
 FIND IT.

Replace with: \1 bold

\1 means Insert the first expression that was found in the Find What box and
 make it bold. In this case, there was only one expression that we were looking
 for, so we replace the expression with itself and make the replacement bold.

Thanks Wolfie.
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Bill Coan
Coan And Company, Inc.
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