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MS Office Forum / Word / Numbering / December 2007Field Highlighting
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 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  SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Keith 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 > 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 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word If you start Word using the /a switch (start - winword.exe /a), does the field shading setting now work? SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com > Thanks Herb, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word > If you start Word using the /a switch (start - winword.exe /a), does the > field shading setting now work? 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 Do the table cells have a style applied (which could possibly include shading)? SignatureStefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP > Thanks Herb, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word > Do the table cells have a style applied (which could possibly include > shading)? Hi Stefan, No they don't. The styles used in these docs have no shading applied - pretty basic styles based`on Normal with just tabs and spacing being modified, and only one Heading (1) is in use. All other numbering/bulleting is applied as separate lists - I didn't generate them, I'm just reviewing :-) Keith stephan > Do the table cells have a style applied (which could possibly include > shading)? Hi Stefan, No they don't. The styles used in these docs have no shading applied - pretty basic styles based`on Normal with just tabs and spacing being modified, and only one Heading (1) is in use. All other numbering/bulleting is applied as separate lists - I didn't generate them, I'm just reviewing :-) Keith stephan |
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