The curly brackets for fields is CTRL+F9 -
ALT+F9 is for displaying the field content - a toggle setting
ALT+CTRL+F9 is assigned by default to the symbol.

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> Whenever I press Alt+F9 in a Word2000 document I get a "R" enclosed in
> a circle......
> Please help!