The chances are that the magazine or magazines uses/use layout software that
may not have good converters for whatever version of the .doc format you are
producing. If so, the question that faces the magazine editor is how to get
the text from Word format into the format they need.

It sounds to me more like someone has transcribed them manually, or even
printed them then used OCR to convert them into the format they want to use.
Another possibility in the case of "Bolo" -> "Bob" is that the text has been
badly "kerned" so that the "l" and the "o" were almost superimposed (you
might be able to tell by looking closely at the text).

A little far-fetched, perhaps, but I don't think Word is the origin of the
problem. It may be worth your while checking to see what format each
magazine prefers and trying to save in that format. For example, the
magazines may be able to cope much better with the more open .rtf format
than the very proprietary .doc format.

Peter Jamieson