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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / February 2005Merged fields have dark/shaded background?
My merged fields are contained in cells within various tables. The main document shows the fields with a shaded background and the merged data also has the shaded background. The cells are configured to not have a shaded background. How do I get rid (or reduce) the shaded background? --David The shading can be turned off by selecting Options from the Tools menu and then go to the View tab and uncheck the item there. However, if as you say the shading appears with the merged data, this leads me to suspect very strongly that you have not actually executed the merge, but are just previewing the data in the mailmerge main document.  SignaturePlease respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP > My merged fields are contained in cells within various tables. The main > document shows the fields with a shaded background and the merged data [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > --David Doug, I'll check out the option you indicated. Here's an interesting twist... If I merge-to-printer the printed document has all the merged fields shaded. If I merge-to-new-document, the new document does -not- have the merged fields shaded and views/prints as expected. --David > The shading can be turned off by selecting Options from the Tools menu and > then go to the View tab and uncheck the item there. However, if as you say [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > > > --David Doug, I went to Tools/Options/View-tab and switched Field shading to "Never". This had no effect that I can tell. When looking at the main document, all the merge fields are still shaded. As before, if I merge/print, the merged data is shaded, but if I merge/new-document, it's not shaded. --David |
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