cant't find the textFont of formatted text?

[Dr. Hawkins]

inside of a loop through the fields, I have

put thFld & cr & the formattedText of thFld \
    & cr & exists(the textFont of word 1 to -1 of the formattedText of
thFld)
put the textFont of word 1 to -1 of the formattedText of thFld

On a particular field, I get

field id 3132 of stack "rawForms"
Estimated Number of Creditors
false

How can this possibly be???  The error on the second line is

button "src_formsStack": execution error at line 89 (Chunk: can't find
object), char 19
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Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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