Printing highlighted FormFields (WinXP NL / Word2003 NL)

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In our company we have lots of templates with FormFields (FF). With a button on the Forms toolbar you can toggle highlighting of the FFs on the screen. Recently I had a request to have them highlighted in print also. I came up with this little macro:

Sub HighlightFF()
'Toggles highlighting of FormFields on/off for printing purposes
Dim ff As FormField
Dim hl As Long
    ProtectionOff
    hl = ActiveDocument.FormFields(1).Range.HighlightColorIndex
    If hl = wdNoHighlight Then
        hl = wdGray25
    Else
        hl = wdNoHighlight
    End If
    For Each ff In ActiveDocument.FormFields
        ff.Range.HighlightColorIndex = hl
    Next ff
    ProtectionOn
End Sub

I tried this in Word97 too, but it didn’t work flawlessly. It turned out that if the result of a TextInput FF is an empty string, highlighting is not always shown. Don’t want to spent much time finding out why, as we don’t use Word97 much any more.

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Word 97 had highlighting? I can’t even remember… As an alternative approach, would shading (as in Borders and Shading) be viable?

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Yep, Word97 has highlighting (for FormFields)!
As I said, we don’t use it much anymore. We migrated to Office 2003, so I won’t experiment with shading. Thanks anyway.

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