There's a read/write 'field shading' property of 'view' class, which
"returns or sets on-screen shading for form fields." That looks promising.
You'll often find that in VBA there are Collection Objects (like FormFields
collection of Document) that cannot be handled in the same way in
AppleScript, which does not have Collection Objects but rather lists of
elements.
Since 'Shaded' is not a Property of the individual FormField Object (which
transfers to the 'form field' class in AppleScript), but *only* of the
FormFields Collection Object, there can be no exact equivalent. There's no
'shaded' property of form field in either AppleScript or VBA.
But I'd try it it this way, getting the active window of the active
document, then its view, and setting the field shading property of the view
to always:
tell application "Microsoft Word"
set field shading of view of active window of active document to field
shading always
end tell
I just tried it with a mail-merge in progress and it worked.
P.S. We're very short here of AppleScripters and I'm now too busy with my
"day job" to come here much at the moment. It would be great if you could
stick around and help others.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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