Page numbers/images in grey boxes

[Glynn]

Hi,
I'm doing my dissertation at the moment, and for some
reason the page numbers appear highlighted in grey, as
well as some images.
Any thoughts?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The grey shading indicates fields (a page number is a { PAGE } field). This
is controlled on the View tab of Tools | Options.

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[Graham Mayor]

It did it because the default setting for fields - of which the page number
is one - are displayed with a shaded background, so that it is easy to spot
that the entry *is* a field. As Suzanne has indicated you can change the
display behaviour. The shading does not print.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That said, this is one of the settings that Word has a nasty habit of
changing behind your back. I often find that after I have opened "foreign"
documents (ones received from other users), my shading setting (which is
normally set to "When selected") has been reset to "Always."

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