My guess is that field shading got turned on. Tools | Options | View, has a
checkbox to shade fields all the time. Uncheck it.
It's display only, it doesn't print anyhow.
Page numbers are {PAGE} fields.
> All of the sudden I am having the numbers of my "Page X of Y" that I've added
> to my headers show up shaded. I can't figure out what happened. I don't know
> that I formatted any kind of shading in anything. I did insert cells into the
> header. Could that have anything to do with it?

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