Macro for selecting multiple words simultaneously in Word

Hello all,

Complete newbie here… very little coding/creating macro experience.

I’ve spent hours looking for a way to simultaneously find multiple words in a single Word document and have them converted to bold text, but am having no luck.

The Word document in question has a bibliography with hundreds of references with authors listed. I have a separate file with a list of ~300 authors’ names I would like to highlight in the original document. Should be possible, no?

Does anyone have any pointers? (I hope this is posted with the right tags)

Many thanks in advance,
David