Field Codes Toggle (Word 2000 sr1)

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Someone has complained to me that when working in Word, field codes will toggle seemingly indiscriminately. He has not been able to associate the toggle with any specific action taken; he’ll be editing a document and suddenly all his fields will toggle to reveal the codes.

Has anyone seen this before or have any suggestions as to what the problem could be?

Thanks!

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Alt + F9 toggles field codes.

I don’t know if that’s what you’re user has clicked on- but it’s a quick way of setting them back.

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Thanks. He’s added the toggle button to his toolbar to quickly toggle back to the field results. However, it’s happening often enough to be an irritant, and I can’t figure out why they toggle to code in the first place.

He did mention that it often happens when he applies paragraph numbering using a third-party add-on called MacPac.

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It’s quite possible that MacPac has the Reveal Codes in their program. I’m not familiar with the program- there may be an FAQ of forum on their web site?

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Pitseleh:

We evaluated MacPac here, and ended up going with MacroSuite. But I believe the two applications work in a similar fashion, and with MacroSuite, if my underlying “boilerplate” document (that contains the numbering scheme a user might attempt to add) has field codes showing, that setting is applied to the user’s current document. We ran into this with a few other settings, and I had to go back into my programming files for MacroSuite and make sure that I had turned field codes off before saving/publishing the files.

I’d guess that something similar might be happening to your user. Can you test this with a blank document? Insert a date field or a TOA entry or something, and make sure field codes are turned off, then add in the LegalMacPac numbering. Are field codes turned on?

klyjen

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