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 Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject: Field Highlighting |
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Hi,
I'm trying to edit documents, created in Word 2003, that use fields to
auto-populate info from a table. I'm working in Word 2007, and I'm
trying to eliminate the field shading in the documents. I've gone
through the Word Options - Advanced - Field shading route and set it to
"Never", and updated fields, but still cannot remove the shading. Any
advice? Thanks,
Keith |
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Herb Tyson [MVP]
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:39 am Post subject: Re: Field Highlighting |
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If you're sure that what you're looking at are fields, and the dialog
setting has no effect, then you probably have a corrupted registry entry. I
would try deleting the Data key to see if that resolves the problem. See
here for how to do it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822645
In Word 2007, the Data key is found here in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word
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Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
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| Quote: | Hi,
I'm trying to edit documents, created in Word 2003, that use fields to
auto-populate info from a table. I'm working in Word 2007, and I'm trying
to eliminate the field shading in the documents. I've gone through the
Word Options - Advanced - Field shading route and set it to "Never", and
updated fields, but still cannot remove the shading. Any advice? Thanks,
Keith |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject: Re: Field Highlighting |
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Thanks Herb,
Yes, the fields are all "Ref xx MERGEFORMAT" fields. I can manually do
a crt+A and change the 'highlight' to none (from the ribbon), so it's an
easy workaround, but I was wondering why the dialog setting doesn't
work. No problem on documents I create, but these docs I'm reviewing
are all created in Word 2003. BTW, registry key was not the problem.
Keith
Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote:
| Quote: | If you're sure that what you're looking at are fields, and the dialog
setting has no effect, then you probably have a corrupted registry
entry. I would try deleting the Data key to see if that resolves the
problem. See here for how to do it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822645
In Word 2007, the Data key is found here in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word
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Herb Tyson [MVP]
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:58 am Post subject: Re: Field Highlighting |
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If you start Word using the /a switch (start - winword.exe /a), does the
field shading setting now work?
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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
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| Quote: | Thanks Herb,
Yes, the fields are all "Ref xx MERGEFORMAT" fields. I can manually do a
crt+A and change the 'highlight' to none (from the ribbon), so it's an
easy workaround, but I was wondering why the dialog setting doesn't work.
No problem on documents I create, but these docs I'm reviewing are all
created in Word 2003. BTW, registry key was not the problem.
Keith
Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote:
If you're sure that what you're looking at are fields, and the dialog
setting has no effect, then you probably have a corrupted registry entry.
I would try deleting the Data key to see if that resolves the problem.
See here for how to do it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822645
In Word 2007, the Data key is found here in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: Re: Field Highlighting |
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Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote:
| Quote: | If you start Word using the /a switch (start - winword.exe /a), does the
field shading setting now work?
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No. There's no change starting with /a. I also have Word 2000 on the
same machine, and it works fine, with the same documents, when field
highlight is set to 'never' or 'when selected'. Just doesn't work in
2007 on doc created with Word 2003. Not a functional problem, since I
can manually remove the highlighting, but annoying nonetheless. Thanks,
Keith |
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