Field Highlighting

[user]

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

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

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

 

[user]

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

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

If you start Word using the /a switch (start - winword.exe /a), does the
field shading setting now work?

 

[user]

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

 

[Stefan Blom]

Do the table cells have a style applied (which could possibly include
shading)?

 

[user]

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

 

[user]

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