I use Ctrl + F9 to enter a bracketed field into a document template. I want
it merely as a location-marker. I will use F11 to jump from one to the next
field entered in this manner. That way I can move quickly through a document
entering custom information at various points without too much work.

Here's my problem: it helps to have the field contain something colorful, so
that it draws my eye and I don't miss making a necessary entry. So I've
figured out how to use Autotext to creat a highlighted underlined space. So
far so good. It would be easiest of all to do a "copy" of the Crtl F9 field
once I've set it up to my specs. The problem is that when I try to paste my
brackedted field,  I get nothing: no field, no colored underline. (In
contrast, if I highlight the bracketed field, then drag-and-drop it, it
copies perfectly).

Am I doing something incorrectly? Is there a solution so that I can copy and
paste a bracketed field wtih some text within it (I notice that when I copy
whole paragraphs with a bracketed-field built into them, the same thing
happens--the field seems to vanish.

Thanks for any guidance you can give me.

ddc