Nevets said:
I've created a form, with several text fields. For some reason, some
of the text fields appear with grey coloured square parenthesis marks
either around them, or right in front of them. I can't select these,
so they are impossible to delete. When the document is printed,
these marks can be seen. How do I get rid of these?
Tools > Options > View > uncheck the box for "Bookmarks"
When you insert a form field from the Forms toolbar, Word creates a default
name for that field. The name is visible in the field's Properties dialog,
and it's actually the name of a bookmark applied to the field. When you have
display of bookmarks turned on, they appear as grey square brackets around
the field (and other bookmarks, if there are any, appear as grey square
brackets around text).
If you copy and paste fields, only the last one has a bookmark name. The
others have nothing in the "Bookmark" box when you look at their Properties
dialogs, and they don't show grey brackets. That's because any bookmark name
can't appear more than once in a document, so any previous occurrence of the
name is deleted when you paste.
The fields' bookmark names are important only if you're using macro code to
manipulate the fields. If you are doing that, though, you need to make sure
*every* field has a name. The article
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/AssignNameToFmFld.htm explains how
to handle that.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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