Copying a field made with Crtl + F9

[DeeDeeCee]

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

 

[Greg Maxey]

I don't really know what you have done or why you can't replicate it with
copy paste.

You can create a field { Quote "_" \*Charformat } then highlight the "Q" and
you will have you highlighted underline. Copy and paste this field at will.

 

[Russ]

You should be able to also create an autotext of the field Greg suggested by
selecting it beforehand and make it an autocorrect by naming it with a least
four characters like xxxx. Then whenever you type xxxx, a tip message will
popup showing xxxx and if you hit the return key the placeholder field will
substitute for your xxxx text.